Geneva Watchmaking Grand Prix Mikrotimer Flying 1000 2011

Mikrotimer Flying 1000

With this 7th Grand Prix de l'Horlogerie de Genève award in just 10 years, TAG Heuer confirms its unrivalled mastery of extremely complex timepieces.

The Mikrotimer Flying 1000 ― the world’s fastest ever mechanical chronograph ― has been voted the “2011 Swiss Watch of the Year” in the Grand Prix de l'Horlogerie de Genève’s prestigious “Sport” category.

“Our R&D team literally rewrote the book with this one,” said a proud Jean-Christophe Babin, the Swiss brand’s CEO. “The Mikrotimer goes beyond what everyone in the industry thought possible. It represents a quantum leap that pushes watchmaking into a whole new paradigm. More than ever, TAG Heuer is the leader of luxury high-end mechanical chronographs and ultra-high frequencies. Our unique commercial range of mechanical chronographs ¬— measuring 1/10th, 1/100th and 1/1000th of a second respectively — have now all won the Geneva Watchmaking Grand Prix. Very few Swiss watch brands have received this honor so consistently.”

500hz beating at 3.6 million beats per hour

The game-changing speed and ultra-high high frequency of the in-house built Mikrotimer shatters every record in watchmaking. The previous best-time was set in March 2005 by TAG Heuer with the modular Calibre 360, and reconfirmed in January 2011 by TAG Heuer’s integrated-central hand display Mikrograph 100, the first and only mechanical chronographs ever commercialized to achieve 1/100th accuracy. The Mikrotimer Flying 1000 is an incredible ten times faster, making it 125 times faster than a 99% of Swiss best mechanical chronographs. Its central chronograph hand completes a full rotation 10-times per second!

Patent-Pending Breakthroughs

The Mikrotimer is equipped with two escapements and has no clutch or balance wheel system. It is effortlessly easy to read — 10ths, 100ths, 1,000ths and minutes at a glance. Never-before-seen technology includes a dynamic lever/wheel transmission and a rebound-based Launcher-Hub-Brake system. Twelve patents pending covering every aspect of high frequency dual assortment time measurement protect these and nine other breakthrough innovations.

The Mikrotimer is also stunningly beautiful, with a black titanium carbide coated case, titanium horns and black ruthenium-treated movement.

Heuer is obsessed by precision and won't stop further innovating in this field, which is the very essence of high-end watchmaking.”

Swiss watchmaking’s most remarkable mechanical chronograph creation to date ― the first ever to measure and display time to an astonishing 1/1,000th of a second ― wins the highly coveted "Best Sport Chronograph" Award at the 2011 Grand Prix de l'Horlogerie de Genève

TAG HEUER MIKROTIMER FLYING 1000 IS GENEVA’s SPORTS WATCH OF THE YEAR