THE ESSENTIALS

MAKE: BREITLING
MODEL: 2005
YEAR: 1964
CASE DIAMETER: 42.6MM
CASE MATERIAL: STAINLESS STEEL
BRACELET MATERIAL: RUBBER
MOVEMENT: MANUAL WIND

Seven years after releasing the original Breitling SuperOcean references 1004 and 807, the brand introduced the Ref. 2005. In contrast to the sleek lines of its predecessors, the 2005 was built to be the ultimate diving machine, removing all the subdials you would normally expect to see on a chronograph and moving to a bold 42.6mm case. Designed to measure time spent underwater, Breitling removed the running seconds and hour counters entirely, leaving a central chronograph hand that measures only the minutes elapsed (hence the name “slow chronograph”), achieved through heavy modification of a Venus 188 calibre.