1986

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• Breitling brings a new edition of the best known model of the company on the market, the 1952-developed "Navitimer" with a built-in slide rule.

• Audemars Piguet creates the first ultra-thin automatic tourbillon.

• Junghans presents the world's first radio-controlled solar watch, the RCS1.

• Audemars Piguet purchases 40% of SAPHIR, reorganizing Jaeger-LeCoultre and IWC to become Les Manufactures Horlogeres.

• The Basel Fair allows non-European companies to exhibit for the first time, with Seiko drawing much attention

• Citizen passes Seiko to become the world's top producer of wristwatches.