TAG Heuer
More about the brand
It is one of the brand’s great assets that most models are conceived of in a variety of colours and materials enabling you to make a choice exactly in line with your taste. TAG Heuer is, moreover, also very mindful of the needs of women offering variants in most collections with smaller, more refined cases and a more subtle design.
You can choose from various collections of motoring watches – the timeless Carrera line, the bold and striking Formule 1 range or the collection referencing the legendary Heritage, Monaco and Autavia models. Water sports enthusiasts are sure to be delighted by the Aquaracer collection. If you prefer to navigate a more formal evening party setting rather than the high seas, then, if you’re choosing a solid yet subtle watch by this manufacture to go on your wrist, you should reach for a Link model.
The most sought-after TAG Heuer timepieces
The brand’s history
It is amazing that the inconspicuous Swiss town of Saint-Imier is the birthplace of no less than two famous brands – Breitling and TAG Heuer. As a matter of fact, in 1860, the year when León Breitling was born, Edouard Heuer established his workshop in the town. Only nine years later Heuer had already brought out his first significant patent.
When Heuer’s successors presented the world with the first stopwatch boasting an accuracy of 1/100 of a second in 1916, the brand became an icon for professional sport and three times in a row (in 1920, 1924 and 1928) it was also the official timepiece of the Olympics. Half a century later, Heuer reached another milestone with its Microtimer watch which measured time to a thousandth of a second.
A formative period for the brand’s further development were the 1960s-70s with the legendary Jack Heuer at the helm of the manufacture leading to further key developments – thanks to John Glenn a Heuer timepiece was the first Swiss watch to be launched into space, a partnership with the Ferrari Formula 1 team was born and the iconic Carrera, Autavia and Monaco models were conceived…
In 1985 Heuer became part of the Techniques d’Avant Garde group and changed its name to TAG Heuer. From that time onwards, the brand has been combining the very best of watchmaking tradition with high -tech innovations that have materially influenced the nature of the industry. It is not for nothing that TAG Heuer has acquired a reputation as the enfant terrible of the watchmaking world – and while not each and every one of its innovations manage to live up to the ambition and expectations the manufacture has put in them, their presentation on the celebrated Basel watch fair is always eagerly anticipated with the greatest of curiosity.