BREITLING and Norton Motorcyles Partnership
TWO GLOBAL LIFESTYLE BRANDS ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP
Swiss watch brand Breitling has announced a partnership with English motorcycle producer Norton Motorcycles that will lead to the creation of some unique common products or features. They will be inspired by the brands’ compelling and intriguingly similar historic timelines, and will even include some of the materials used in Norton Motorcycles’ legendary high-performance bikes.
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The
partners are an ideal match. Both Breitling and Norton Motorcycles are brands
with a strong heritage, founded in the nineteenth century by visionaries who
gave their names to their companies and, to a large extent, defined their
industries. When James Lansdowne Norton founded his company – a manufacturer of
“fittings and parts for the two-wheel trade” – in 1898 and produced his first
motorcycles in 1902, Léon Breitling had already been making watches in the
Swiss Jura mountains for more than a decade.
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The two
long-established brands have incredible histories. Breitling has, for the
better part of a century, been renowned for its strong link with aviation and
its pioneering role in the development of chronographs. Norton Motorcycles has
long been regarded as the British motorcycle manufacturer, and its bikes have
distinguished themselves both on and off the racetrack.
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Georges Kern, Breitling’s CEO since the summer of 2017,
says that his brand’s parallels with Norton Motorcycles are striking. “Both companies are innovative and
entrepreneurial,” he says, “and have powerful legacies. At the same time,
we are looking ahead toward what we at Breitling call ‘our legendary future’.”
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Stuart Garner, who bought Norton Motorcycles in 2008
and has driven its extraordinary revival, agrees, saying, “I’ve always said that the key to a company’s success is to let the
brand be the brand. This has been essential both at Norton Motorcycles and
Breitling. We haven’t tried to change the nature of our brands or deny their
histories. In fact, we revel in those histories and take inspiration from them
while focusing on the future.”
Georges Kern is convinced that the passionate fan bases at Breitling and Norton Motorcycles will overlap. He says, “Both companies have reputations for products with an incredible ‘cool factor.’ It’s easy to imagine someone riding by on a Norton motorcycle wearing a classic Breitling – a perfect combination of aspirational, statement-making brands.”
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The new watches will incorporate DNA elements from both brands, offering wristwatch and motorcycle fans a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to express their individuality by flying – at once – the colors of an emphatically Swiss watchmaker and the ultimate “British-made” motorcycle manufacturer.
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