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ORIGINAL PUNCH CARDS.<br />
THE LIMITED EDITION NUMBERS<br />
ON THE EDGE OF THE CASE<br />
OF EACH CODEBREAKER WATCH<br />
WERE TAKEN FROM THESE.<br />
IN THE MIDDLE: ROTORS FROM<br />
THE GERMAN ENIGMA CIPHER<br />
MACHINES.<br />
ABOVE:<br />
AN ORIGINAL ENIGMA<br />
MACHINE.<br />
ON THE FACING PAGE:<br />
PHOTOS TAKEN<br />
AT BLETCHLEy PARK DURING<br />
WORLD WAR TWO.<br />
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“We have a passion for watches, for history and<br />
all things mechanical in our blood”. The Codebreaker<br />
timepiece is the perfect expression of<br />
this Bremont team declaration. This elegant<br />
chronograph is inspired by an official model<br />
dating to the 1940s and equipped with a great<br />
many resources amongst which its flyback functions<br />
and its second time zone stand out.<br />
Codebreaker is also a piece of living history encompassing<br />
elements which come from Bletch-<br />
ley Park itself, the legendary British cryptology<br />
department given the task of deciphering the<br />
secret messages of the German armed forces in<br />
World War Two. It has been estimated that the ingenuity<br />
of brilliant mathematicians such as Alan<br />
Turing and the huge efforts of the whole Bletchley<br />
Park staff brought forward Allied victory by as<br />
much as two years saving incalculable suffering<br />
and human life. It was a formidable enterprise if<br />
we consider that the rotor system used by the<br />
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