Vintage watches

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      Since 1860
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      & Chronographs
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  • 1955 - 1976

1860 - Edouard Heuer

Vintage & Innovation

Vintage & Innovation

At the age of twenty, Edouard Heuer sets up a watchmaking workshop in St.Imier in the Swiss Jura region.

Edouard Heuer

1895 - Patent of the TAG Heuer water-resistant case

Vintage Watches

Vintage Watches

The patent for one of the first water-resistant cases for pocket watches.

Patent Of The TAG Heuer Water-resistant Case

1908 - Pulsometer dial patent

Vintage Watches

Vintage Watches

The company obtains a patent for a Pulsometer dial still used today by doctors.

Pulsometer Dial Patent

1912 - Women's wristwatches

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Vintage Watches

Heuer begins producing women's wristwatches.

Women's Wristwatches

1920 - Sports chronometers

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Vintage Watches

This chronograph and these enamelled dial sports stopwatches are fundamental pieces of the collection. Top: split-second chronograph with fly-back hand. Left: sports stopwatch with two fly-back hands. Sports Chronometers

1930 - Chronograph for pilots

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Vintage Watches

In the 1930's, TAG Heuer is producing chronographs specially designed for pilots, with the same cases and dial as other pilots' watches of the period. Now the company introduces one-button and two-button versions. (These chronographs later inspired the Targa Florio chronograph, re-issued by TAG Heuer in 1996). Chronograph For Pilots

1933 - The Autavia dashboard instrument

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Vintage Watches

Creation of the first dashboard instrument for automobile and aviation : 'Autavia'(contraction of AUTomobile and AVIAtion). Later in 1933, TAG Heuer introduced the first dashboard featuring an 8-day movement, the 'Hervue' dashboard which ran for 8 days without winding The Autavia Dashboard Instrument

1939 - Water-resistant wrist chronograph

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Vintage Watches

Launch of a water-resistant wrist chronograph recognizable in their round push-buttons.

Water-resistant Wrist Chronograph

1948 - Auto-Graph

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Vintage Watches

Launch of the 'Auto-Graph' model, a wrist chronograph with a tachometer scale and a manual reference hand. Launch of the 'Auto-Graph' model, a wrist chronograph with a tachometer scale and a manual reference hand.

Auto-graph

1949 - Solunar

Vintage Watches

Vintage Watches

Launch of the 'Solunar', the first watch with a tide indicator. It had an initial production run of 1,000 pieces. Solunar