Breitling: Paradise

Mid-Century America was a place of space-age futurism, Doo-Wop diners and the curvaceous glory of stream-line moderne. It was exuberant, it was giggly, it was full of joy. Breitling’s Superocean Heritage ’57 Pastel Paradise Capsule Collection is a hymn to those glorious days of sun-soaked optimism and heroic design. 

From the Googie motels of California to the kitschy cutes of Miami Beach, 1950s America was looking at the future with a smile on its face. The long, hard years of the 1940s were behind them, and a new kind of future felt thrillingly close: jet travel for all, space exploration, modern, light-filled homes, technological innovation, optimistic fashion, big cars, diners and a sense that everything coming up was going to be happy, sunny, poppy and a peachy kind of pink. Breitling, being the jolly folk they are, have captured the spirit of that age with their super-summery Superocean Heritage ’57 Pastel Paradise capsule collection.

Rather brilliantly, you can customise your colour combination with the quick-exchange system, which allows you to effortlessly swap in replacement straps, and the colour palette is the ice-cream parlour of your wildest dreams: white, aquamarine, mint green, iced latte, rainbow tangerine. All of them come with tone-on-tone dials and a big old eye-catching 38mm stainless steel case, which makes them pretty much the perfect thing to hang out the window of a baby-blue Ford 500 Fairlane Galaxie Skyliner as you barrel along the highway.