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Subsequent Event	12 Months Ended
Subsequent Event	Dec. 28, 2014
Subsequent Events [Abstract]
Subsequent Event	Subsequent Events On January 27, 2015, Teledyne’s Board of Directors approved a stock repurchase program authorizing the Company to repurchase up to an additional 2,500,000 shares of its common stock. On February 2, 2015, the Company entered into a $142.0 million ASR agreement with a financial institution in a privately negotiated transaction for 1,500,000 shares of the Company's common stock at an initial price of $94.68 per share. Pursuant to the ASR agreement, in February 2015, the Company advanced $142.0 million to the ASR counterparty and received 1,425,000 shares of common stock, which used $134.9 million of the $142.0 million advanced. On February 2, 2015, a subsidiary of Teledyne acquired Bowtech Products Limited (“Bowtech”) for $18.4 million in cash, net of cash acquired and including an estimated working capital adjustment. Based in Aberdeen, Scotland, Bowtech designs and manufactures harsh underwater environment vision systems.