A small pair of hands, mounted at the top of the dial (12 o’clock position) indicates the duration of the trip (up to 12 hours).

Designed for use in automobiles and aircraft, two large hands mounted from the center pinion indicate the time of day, as on a traditional clock. In 1911, Heuer received a patent for the “Time of Trip”, the first dashboard chronograph. The company traces its roots to 1860, when Edouard Heuer founded Uhrenmanufaktur Heuer AG (English: Heuer Watchmaking Inc.) in St-Imier, Switzerland.Įdouard Heuer patented his first chronograph in 1882 and in 1887 patented an “oscillating pinion” still used by major watchmakers of mechanical chronographs. The TAG Heuer slogan is “Swiss Avant-Garde Since 1860”. TAG Heuer maintains a watchmaking workshop in Cornol, Switzerland, and a watchmaking factory in La Chaux-de-Fonds. Jack Heuer, the great-grandson of the founder, is the honorary chairman. See a very special edition of the Carrera Calibre Heuer 02 Tourbillon at Alec Monopoly Joins The TAG Heuer Universe: A (Street) Artist In Swiss Residence.TAG Heuer is based in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, and is led by CEO Frédéric Arnault. Only the price is different, and this difference is easy to understand for each of our customers.” “I believe that TAG Heuer wrote a piece of history in Swiss watchmaking with its TAG Heuer Carrera Connected – which experiences no disconnect as a luxury product because you can hardly see the difference between the Carrera Connected and the Carrera Heuer 02 Tourbillon. “Our Carrera Connected watch is certainly the biggest single success of our history,” TAG Heuer CEO Jean-Claude Biver told me at Baselworld 2016. All proceeds from the sale will go to the Make-A-Wish foundation.

The auction – with a reserve price of $17,000 – will continue until March 29. The entire package will be auctioned on eBay as of right now.

And to mark this occasion, the one-thousandth Carrera Calibre Heuer 02 Tourbillon has been put in a magnificent presentation box together with a brand-new TAG Heuer Connected Modular 45 watch worth $1,650, which was just announced today. Today, TAG Heuer announced the arrival of the one-thousandth certified tourbillon movement.

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