#chronomat

[watchilove]

Breitling Chronomat B01 42 Triumph

[moonwatchuniverse]

60 years ago... Mercury 7 1963, October 21 the seven " Mercury 7 " astronauts pose for an end-of-program group photo with US Navy LtCmdr Scott Carpenter on the right. Note that, exactly 515 days after his "Aurora 7" mission, Carpenter wore an all black dial Breitling Navitimer replacement for his custom-made "Cosmonaute" which got damaged during splash-down & recovery operations in May 1962. MoonwatchUniverse has written a day-to-day account article showing that a launch delay due to a parachute hardware fault enabled Carpenter to receive the 1962 "Cosmonaute" in time to be worn as the first Swiss-made wrist watch in space! At this time, October 1963 the NASA astronaut office brainstormed about an official astronauts' chronograph and by October 1964 NASA had just received chronograph wrist watches from Hamilton, Longines-Wittnauer, Omega and Rolex for testing in order to determine which brand would become flight-qualified for their manned space program! Three decades after Carpenter’s Aurora 7 mission, Breitling chronographs returned to space as the “Chronomat”, “Cosmonaute” and “Chronospace” versions were worn by French cosmonauts (CNES spationautes) Michel Tognini (1992), Claudie André-Deshays (1996) and Léopold Eyharts (1998). (Photo: NASA)

[ako-kipali]

Teeheee space crew.

For how old they are- I don't really know how to describe them. Space adventures fun though,

[chronostore]

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[shitpostingkats]

You guys have no idea how badly I need Aguefort x Lapin to be canon. Not only do we need more Lapin content, not only is it incredibly funny for Arthur Aguefort to have multiple magical animal paramours across time and space, I need Fig and Ayda to bond over their parent's utterly insane polycules. I need Ayda to stiffly introduce Lapin as her step-father. I need him hanging out at the Compass Points and awkwardly trying to bond with his boyfriend's daughter because Aguefort may be barred from having any contact with Ayda but his hookup from another timeline isn't. I need Lapin to transfer all of his honed sinister advisor skills and experience as a babysitter of willfull princesses to being a Weird Uncle. I need Fig and Aydas' "Yeah my estranged dad showed up again in my life and now I have a weird stepdad as well" emotional bonding and discussion. I need for at their wedding the first row of seats is entirely taken up by all five Fathers Of The Bride.

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[gmtindiasposts]

Breitling x Victoria Beckham to Reveal New Chronomat Automatic 36 Collection

Breitling collaborates with fashion designer Victoria Beckham to reveal the Chronomat Automatic 36 Victoria Beckham collection. This new collection takes references in SS and yellow gold-coloured dials inspired by Victoria Beckham’s Spring/Summer 2024 palette. Read more on GMT India: https://www.gmt-india.in/post/breitling-unveils-the-chronomat-automatic-36-victoria-beckham-collection

[foone]

"Why's this gun in the high value vault? It seems to be barely enchanted at all."

Your mentor looks around for his spectacles, before realizing they're on his head. "let me see here... Ahh! Be extra careful with that one. That's The Gun of Today loaded with Bullets of Yesterday".

(another mystical pistol of time magic under the readmore)

You turn it over in your hands, examining the minimal etching on each side. "What's that even mean? And why is it seemingly so barely enchanted? All the other guns in here are hard too look at, they're so blindingly magical..."

"well you see", he says, sitting back in his chair in his usual way he does when he's going into lecture mode, "it's for two reasons. One, it's got only got two basic chronomancy spells on it, and two: they're of opposite polarity, alignment, whatever you want to call it."

"so they cancel each other out and make it seem less magical than it is?"

"precisely! And those two spells are protection-from-timeshift and you-were-never-born. The, uh, names sound better in Temporal Runes but I was never good at pronouncing four dimensional shapes."

"doesn't that completely counter itself out? If you're protected from time shifts, it can't never-born you, right? And holy shit, are you saying you-were-never-born is a BASIC chronomancy spell?"

He pulls off his glasses and slumps back in the chair, looking his age for once. "look: you don't become a pyromancer because your soup is cold. Chronomancers are... Well they're very dedicated people, even if that dedication tends to be fervent and uncontrolled. Did I ever tell you about Dilfen the Reversed?"

"uh, no, but maybe another time. I still don't understand how this gun does anything, if it had two opposing spells on it. It'd be like enchanting a vessel to be constantly full of fire AND water."

"that'd be useful if you were building a dream engine. Or maybe a smoke machine! Anyway... So you have to understand that time magic isn't exactly targeted, not at a person. It's targeted at time. So just because you personally are not going to be affected by a chronomatic enchantment doesn't mean it doesn't still have effects."

Your eyes go wide. "wait, so it still has the effect of you-were-never-born, but you personally are not effected, because of the timeshift protection?"

"yes. And it's 'affected' . You need to learn to use the right forms of words if you're going to be a wizard for very long. Common is much more forgiving than Magical Speach."

"how... How can you tell I used 'affected' vs 'effected'? They're pronounced the same!"

He puts his glasses back on just to dramatically lower them a bit and look over them at you. "my dear young lady, you do not make it to three hundred and four years of magical study without getting a good at seeing how people spell the words they are speaking. Hells, I wouldn't have made it through university, either time, without being able to see how the professors were spelling their words!"

"huh. Anyway, back to the gun," you sat, gingerly placing it back in the display case, carefully. Very carefully, like you just realized you're holding a live grenade and you're not sure where that pin went. "So that means, you get shot with this thing, and it doesn't unborn you, but it does make the rest of the world think you were never born."

"Correct. Or, almost. You actually were never born; recall that it's a chronomantic enchantment, not merely a mind control spell. Everyone thinks you were never born, and they're right. You become a walking paradox, and the only thing keeping you continuing to exist is the enchantment on the gun that keeps time from finishing to correct itself. "

"That's... terrible. Your parents, friends, loved ones... They all won't know you anymore!"

He leans forward like a kid telling a scary story around the campfire, clearly enjoying the morbid table. "oh it's so much worse than just that. Think about the kind of person who gets shot by this gun, wielded by a chronomancer drunk on power."

You ponder (good practice for an aspiring wizard). "Adventurers? Guardsmen?"

"Exactly. Do-gooders, to not put too fine a point on it. The kind of people who go around saving kittens and orphanages, defeating Goleths in the dark dungeons, and stopping Porphyriamancers planning to destroy a whole town for some slight or another."

"so all your legacy will be gone in any instant. No one will know it was you who did all those good things!"

He shakes his head, slowly and sadly. "You're not thinking far enough done this thought, my dear apprentice. Yes, no one will know you did those things... Because you didn't. You were never born, remember? The orphanage is still ashes of wood and bone. The town is destroyed. The kitten is drowned. The Goleth is still demanding virgin sacrifices. All the good you did in your life is undone, because you were never there to do it. Maybe someone stepped up and did some of those things in your absence, but not all of them. Your role in time cannot be replaced."

You neatly utter an oath that'd get you grounded for the next few weeks. "That's some heavy stuff. I see now why you keep this in the deepest vault". You step back, as if a little more distance from the accursed thing will make you any safer. You can't believe you picked it up. You'll have to be more careful in future: just because your magic sight shows something as barely enchanted, it doesn't mean you should consider it safe to pick up. You turn to your master again. "So how did you acquire this damned thing?"

He walks over to one of his lightly-glowing food boxes, the ones he cast that spacetime warp on. They're not really "here", so much as in many places at once, so he always has access to his favorite food and drinks. He pulls out a frosty bottle, and starts pouring himself a drink. (He explained before that although the boxes are in many places, most of them scattered around his tower in convenient spots, their primary location is in fact buried in a snowbank many miles into the northern wastes. So even when it's the height of summer, his drinks stay cool, and his icecubes are always frozen)

While pouring, he explains. "Many years back, my partner Gregor and I tracked down the chronomancer who was fighting a one-man (well, one-elf. Or one half-elf?) war against the nation of Gridden. He was undoing all their battles, afflicting their kings with hereditary diseases of royalty, and generally trying to unmake their entire kingdom from all of time. He was nearly successful, too. We were paid a King's ransom to stop him, and we did, but in a lot of ways the damage was already done. By the time Gregor and I finally ended his reign of terror, Gridden was barely half the nation it used to be. It still exists, technically, but it has lost much of its territory to neighboring empires exploiting its weakness, and many of the people have fled the nation, living as refugees in other countries to avoid the wrath of their unstable monarchs. We couldn't undo most the damage, because chronomancy is like that. You never quite know what has been changed and what wasn't. "

"And if you do change something, what effects will it have? You can read history and see that "oh we lost this big battle in the 19th year of King Whatever", but if you go back and make them win the battle, does that make the nation stronger? Or weaker?"

"There's many a naive chronomancer who met their end trying to improve their nation out of patriotism, by undoing defeats and hardships, only to learn that losing that battle is what finally brought the warring clans together for the defense of their suddenly unified kingdom. Or that plague is why why devoted so much study to healing magic, and if they hadn't had that experience, a later sickness would have destroyed them all, or they would have never gained favor with their expansionist neighbors by being able to cure their queen's infertility."

He slumps back in his chair, glass of something very strong in his hand. "You can never predict how a change in time will work out in the long run. And the nasty thing about time is that there's always a long run, and nothing ends. This is why time magic is largely the domain of those drunk on their own power, who don't care about the consequences, so long as they are the sculptor for the clay of time. You can ask Gregor about that."

You blink. "I didn't know you have a partner Gregor."

He downs the glass and stares into the middle distance. "I don't. I never did". He puts down the glass, softly, as if trying to not make a sound. His eyes still aren't focusing on anything in this place.

You find an excuse to go back to your room to continue your studies. The atmosphere in this room is the opposite of the charge you feel as a spell is building up, but you don't think there's any magical component to this feeling.

[watchilove]

Breitling Chronomat Automatic 36 Victoria Beckham collection

[squirmydads-creations]

Endless spells! It tuns out Slann Starmages can toss around a lot of spells, and if you have multiple Starmages, because why not, and have some Chronomatic Gears running, you can have a ridiculous number of spells and spell effects running merrily around the battlefield. Unfortunately the endless spell effects minis are no longer available from GW, so I've headed to Etsy for proxies. I am looking at multiple artists for the spells minis so I can see how well each prints, price, and delivery time. Delivery times have been very mixed, but price and quality have all been good so I'm forgiving the delays.

Pictured above (L-R); Quicksilver Blades, Chronomatic Cogs, Screaming Skulls, & Spell Portal. Not entirely happy with the Spell Portal paint job, feels messy.

[moonwatchuniverse]

1992 CNES Antares mission to Mir space station Post-landing photo showing the TM-14/15 crew with Alex Kaleri, Aleksandr Viktorenko and Michel Tognini. CNES spationaute Michel Tognini wore an Omega Speedmaster, a Breitling Chronomat and a Yema Spationaute III Antares. Michel Tognini was the third Frenchman to wear Yema chronographs in space and also carried an extra Yema chronograph with him during this 13 dys 18 hours long mission onboard the Mir space station. (Photo: CNES/RKA)

[chronostore]

Breitling Chronomat 41 | Chronostore

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[999breitling]

The new Breitling Chronomat Automatic GMT 40 has a modern bullet bracelet, and it simply looks good! With the blue sunburst dial, you’re ready for the summer for sure. The chronometer-certified Breitling caliber 32 (based on ETA’s 2893-2) throws in a GMT complication on top....

[niemernuet]

My heart in your hands

watchmaker!Marco / professional-rich-kid!Gino

Marco loves his job, creating life out of nothing but wires and springs, but loathes his customers, mindless oafs with more money than sense or curiosity who treat his children like disposable junk. Gino is the younger son of a Billionaire who hides behind the shell of a vapid, bored brat, having accepted the fact that he will never be equal to Golden Boy Mauro in his father's eyes. He joins them on a very important business meeting with prospective clients which leads them to a tiny watch manufactury in the boonies of Switzerland, and while Father and Mauro do very important business stuff, Gino tries and fails to flirt with the most attractive watchmaker in the entire place.

None of his movements betrayed the annoyance in his eyes as the handsome guy calmly put his silly little clamp on the table, raised his silly little magnifying glass over his forehead, and turned around to glare at Gino. It was there though, and it made these deep, soulful eyes all the more mesmerising. "Unless you want to learn all the ways I can kill you with my instruments, you better take two steps back!" he hissed. Gino laughed, which infuriated him even more. "But what if I need an expertise?" he asked as he retreated out of the other guy's reach. Better safe than sorry. "About my watch, I mean." Casually he pulled his sleeve back to reveal the wristwatch he had chosen today. The blonde snack scoffed, and put the magnifying glass back over his right eye. "Since when does trash need an expertise?" "Trash?" Gino asked, and turned his wrist to examine the clock face. "Don't you know that..." "...it is a Breitling Chronomat COT XV that set you back a little over 100k?" the other guy said to the watch in his hands. "I know exactly what it is, and I have to say it fits you well. It is reductive, inelegant, and tacky. Just like you."

[gondololeiloes]

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