{"id":1198,"date":"2012-07-26T16:32:03","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T16:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchpro.wpengine.com\/2012\/07\/26\/breitling-emergency-watch-fetches-5k-at-fellows\/"},"modified":"2012-07-26T16:32:03","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T16:32:03","slug":"breitling-emergency-watch-fetches-5k-at-fellows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/breitling-emergency-watch-fetches-5k-at-fellows\/","title":{"rendered":"Breitling Emergency watch fetches 5k at Fellows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><sup><strong>By Deepa Narwani<\/strong><\/sup><\/p>\n<p><strong>One of the only two watches to have been worn on the first ever round-the-world hot air baloon flight was sold for &pound;5,000 at auction at Fellows this week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All proceeds from the sale of the Breitling Emergency timepiece,&nbsp;an instrument watch with a built-in micro transmitter allowing rescuers to locate one&rsquo;s position following a crash or forced landing,&nbsp;were donated to&nbsp;Jones&rsquo; charity Winds of Hope.<\/p>\n<p>The Breitling took to the skies in March 1999 when Brian Jones and Bertrand Picard made the first complete flight around-the-world aboard the Breitling Orbiter 3.&nbsp;The expedition was sponsored by Breitling and each of the balloonists was provided with their own watch.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Deepa Narwani One of the only two watches to have been worn on the first ever round-the-world hot air baloon flight was sold for &pound;5,000 at auction at Fellows this week. All proceeds from the sale of the Breitling Emergency timepiece,&nbsp;an instrument watch with a built-in micro transmitter allowing rescuers to locate one&rsquo;s position [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false},"categories":[2,1,16],"tags":[99,1272,1271],"newspack_lstngs_evt":[],"newspack_lstngs_gen":[],"newspack_lstngs_mkt":[],"newspack_lstngs_plc":[],"acf":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"WATCHPRO","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_evt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_evt?post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_gen","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_gen?post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_mkt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_mkt?post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_plc","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_plc?post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}