Watch Collecting - Tag Heuer Watches - Tag F1 Carrera Monaco Aquaracer

Please visit my FREE Luxury Goods Reference Library Website http://www.luxurytolast.com This is an excellent site all about Luxury Goods and features heaps of free information and heaps of great photos. Best of all I am not trying to sell anything! JUST A GREAT RESOURCE FOR ALL Luxury Goods lovers! http://www.luxurytolast.com Timeline: 1860 - Edouard Heuer founds a watchmaking company in St-Imier, Switzerland 1882 - Heuer patents his first chronograph. 1887 - Heuer patents an "oscillating pinion" still used by major watchmakers for mechanical chronographs. 1911 - Heuer introduces the first automobile dash-board chronograph. 1916 - Heuer invents a stopwatch that is accurate to within 1/100th of a second called the micrograph. 1920's - Heuer watches are timekeepers at the Antwerp, Paris and Amsterdam Olympics. 1933 - Heuer launches the "Autavia" the first dashboard stopwatch for race-cars. 1950 - Heuer introduces the "Mareograph - Seafarer" a wristwatch with chronograph functions and tide indicator. (COOL WATCH!) 1964 - Heuer launches the "Carrera" chronograph. This watch was named for the 1950's "Carrera Pan-america Mexico" road-race. 1965 - Heuer patents the MICROTIMER, the first miniature electronic timekeeping device which was accurate to within 1/1000th of a second. 1969 - Heuer introduces the "Chronomatic", the first automatic chronograch with a microrotor. They also introduce the widely popular "Monaco" worn by movie-star Steve McQueen. 1971 to 1979 -