Professional
Bertrand Piccard took to the stage at the Summit to highlight the Professional category of watches from Breitling. This category of watches includes timepieces like the Emergency that is fitted with a distress beacon that can signal for help when its wearer needs to be rescued.
Piccard is an adventurer and a daredevil – he co-piloted the Solar Impulse, the first round-the-world solar-powered flight, a few years ago. A decade-and-a-half before that, he also co-piloted the Breitling Orbiter which made the first non-stop flight around the world by balloon. “We started the 45,000km journey with 3.7tonnes of propane, and by the time we finished the flight, we had just 40 kilos left in the tank.”