In 1995, Breitling released the Emergency with a built-in transmitter that broadcasts on the aircraft emergency frequency to send a distress signal. The transmitter has a range of 160 km, an equivalent of 6,000 meters in height.
In the mid 2000s, the Emergency and the satellite support company had a 121.5 MHz; however, thanks to Cospas-Sarsat, the Emergency changed the frequency to 406 MHz. The Emergency came to fame in the early 2000s when two pilots named Quentin Smith and Steve Brooks were in a helicopter that went down in between the southern tip of South America and Cape Horn. After they activated the Breitling Emergency’s transmitter, they were rescued after 10-and-a-half hours. Since then, Breitling has claimed that the Emergency has saved about 20 people, up through 2010.
Dimension
Fits a wrist size of 8 inches or smaller.
