Some replica watches tend to stand out through brand name, others through durability and others through an out of this world design. While the initial Emergency watch emitted a signal on 121.5 MHz analog frequency merely, the new Emergency is able to transmit on the 406 MHz frequency as well, the frequency that Cospas-Sarsat began using in 2009.
The Grenchen, Switzerland-based watch brand announced late Thursday afternoon in New York that the watch has gained approval from the Federal Communications Commission and will be accessible in the replica Breitling boutiques in New York, Orlando, Miami and Las Vegas and at select Breitling-carrying retailers across the country in July.
However the release of this latest version of the timepiece has been held up in the U.S. market because it needed FCC approval, which took longer to obtain than the brand expected.
(Cospas-Sarsat is an international system that provides location data to search-and-rescue teams worldwide thus they can find and assist people in distress.)The dual antennas are housed in the lower part of the watch.
The Emergency is a titanium watch that retails for $15,825 on a Diver Pro strap, $16,475 on a titanium bracelet and $18,745 on the brand's "Co-pilot" bracelet. At an event held Thursday afternoon at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum Complex in New York, Breitling replica watches USA President Thierry Prissert noted that the initial Emergency watch saved more than 20 lives, including that of a man hunting in the Alaskan outback in the summer of 2008. The new Emergency, an updated version of the timepiece Breitling first brought out in the 1990s, is the first wrist-worn beacon in the world with a dual Personal Locator Beacon, or PLB.
"Due to a watch is so much smaller than a traditional locator beacon, it took longer than anticipated to get approval from the FCC, but Breitling replica was able to satisfy the commission that the Emergency can properly send alerts, and the watch performed perfectly during their exhaustive testing," Prissert explained on Thursday. The 52 mm Emergency has an electronic chronograph with 12/24-hour analog and digital display, 1/100th second chronograph, alarm, timer, second time zone, multi-lingual calendar and battery end-of-life indication.
When the cap attached to the main antenna is unscrewed and extended to the correct length, a second cap on the opposite side releases, activating the transmitter.
"The chronograph remains the absolute master and the connection with the watch is primarily designed to improve its user friendliness," replica Breitling said. There's also the Emergency Night Mission on a black Diver Pro strap, which retails for $18,910. Or better, you can easily label it 'next to impossible'.
