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TAG Heuer: a 150 year old avant-garde
Each year a vaunted Swiss company TAG Heuer presents revolutionary sensational concept watches that shock imagination and watchmaking bases.
However, those who say they do it because of TAG acronym (Techniques d Avant Garde) in the company's name are mistaken.
Cutting-edge technologies served as the company's base since the very beginning.
A young man named Edouard Heuer was 20 years old when, in I860, he founded a dealer's office in Saint-Imier.
It is now Saint-Imier is more or less famous due to several watch manufactures, and then it represented a tiny place, lost in the mountains.
However, a young merchant's business developed so well, that after 4 years he allowed himself renting apartments in Biennais.
At the entrance he hung a small plaque with the inscription «E.Heuer & Compagnie».
The main secret of Edouard Heuer's commercial success was explained, of course, not only by his attractive appearance (he resembled a young John Malkovich).
But the fact he knew what to trade with and the things his clients needed, as well as he was a really good watchmaker by no means.
Soon his company became a full-value watch company.
Two of his inventions ever made a history of watchmaking.
This is the a watch winding system with the crown, instead of traditional key he patented in 1869.
And in 1887, he invented an important detail that connects watch mechanism with a chronograph module - oscillating pinion, which is still used in modern watches.
By the way, chronographs that were the most advanced watches of that time became his strong point.
So Edouard Heuer went down in the history also as the first one who established a serial production of chronographs.
Chronographs also yielded E. Heuer & Compagnie the first international recognition - silver diploma of the World Exhibition in Paris in 1889.
A superb watchmaker and businessman died in 1892, leaving his family a huge at that time estate of 552 750 francs.
Here we simply must note that Edouard Heuer was also a wonderful father, and his sons, Jules and Charles, who brilliantly continued his work immediately proved the fact.
In 1902 the brothers bought out the shareholders' share, and the family business was called just Heuer - without Compaigne.
At this time, the demand for chronographs sharply increased, and the brothers were completely focused on their production.
A doctoral chronograph with heart-rate monitor (1910), one of the first flight chronographs called Time of Trip, which could be built in all first aircraft and automobiles' dashboards is of particular importance.
When Graf Zeppelin began building his legendary airships, he made a careful examination of modern chronographs and chose Heuer company’s appliances.
In any case, during his first trans-American 8106-kilometer flight in a Zeppelin ZR III dirigible, a pilot Hugh Eckener supervised time on Time of Trip.
Eckener remained alive and happy and therefore trusted Heuer precision mechanics again in 1929, during the world tour at the Graf Zeppelin.
However, here we are a little ahead of time, since previously there were no less important events.
In 1913, Jules and Charles, along with their other great contemporaries Louis Cartier and Edmond Jaeger realized that the future belonged to wristwatches completely.
And by the way, ladies, take note: Heuer company released the first wrist model just for you!
Those were fine watches on gold bracelets and leather straps.
Well, powerful chronographs became the first models for men, of course.
In 1916 Heuer was noted by the greatest world record by creating Microsplit - the first mechanical chronograph that can measure time to within 1 / 100 second.
Needless to mention, then, that company became an official Olympic Games timekeeper in Antwerp (1920), Paris (1924) and Amsterdam (1928).
"Microsplits" were in such good demand that the company could thrive, releasing only them: production of these remarkable split stopwatches was stopped only in the late 70-ies of the last century!
Another kind of Autavia board chronograph was also very successful, especially, when its fuel endurance was increased up to 8 days.
It is good that brothers did not forget developing a wristwatch line at the same time.
In 1930 they patented a waterproof case. Then (by the way, together with Rolex) they received a patent for an automatic watch.
Since the glory of board chronographs and sports stopwatches was great, Heuer watches were also in demand.
Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Truman, Henry Ford, Prince William, Thai King Bhumibol and many others wore them, as Heuer produced chronographs almost for everyone.
For example, Autograph model helped pilots, Mareograph - fishermen, Seafarer - sailors (incidentally, a unique mechanical indicator of tide and indicator with the reverse 5-minute countdown to the start were firstly used in it)...
In the mid-50, the company welcomed a brilliant representative of Hoyer family's new generation - Jack, who serves as an honorary chairman up to this day.
Jack Heuer was a fan of racing since childhood, and the company's friendship with the world of motorsport became even stronger.
Subsequently, it will result in Formula 1 sponsorship and an invention of the unique ACITS system - Automatic Car Identification and Timing system (1976), used to this day.
However, a wrist chronograph Carrera became a real breakthrough in the brand's history. It was inspired by a legendary La Carrera Panamericana Rally Mexico - the race on Pan American highway from Guatemala to the United States. This rally gathered the best pilots in the world on the best cars. Carrera Chronograph became a cult one, embodying people's ideas of a beautiful life in the 60's. It may be called the first modern chronograph, which defined design and functionality of the vast majority of other legendary models.
Chronograph with a classical column wheel and hand-wound Heuer Carrera based on Valjoux caliber 72 with side second face, 12-hour and 30-minute counters became a sensation on both sides of the ocean. Americans liked Carrera for art design and belonging to a prestigious Heuer brand. The Europeans also liked the design, and even more the fact that Carrera was associated with a distant fairy-tale paradise life beyond the ocean. A small change in design (second scale was placed on flange, and tachometer - behind a standard markup) helped to create a free face with huge functional counters. Sports complex watches got a tinge of aristocratic restraint.
A reasonable price aldo played an important role in the model's global success.
Jack Heuer established a price tag of $ 70 on a chronograph in steel casing, a model with 20-micron gold cost $ 90, and the most luxurious gold version - only 240.
Old-fashioned pathos chronographs of other renowned Swiss brands cost at least 10 times more expensive.
Carrera was issued almost without any design changes until the quartz crisis - late 70's - when luxurious at the time cushion cases came into fashion.
Later, on the base of Carrera, they released a wrist version of Autavia.
And in 1969 there occurred an event, due to which Carrera entered the annals of watchmaking art forever.
At the Basel exhibition, there was presented the first automatic chronograph in the world.
Caliber 11 mechanism was jointly developed by Heuer, Breitling, Hamilton, and Dubois Depraz, which were a month ahead their competitors - Zenith and Movado.
Since Jack Heuer was a generator of ideas and work facilitator, historians consolidated his lead in creating an automatic chronograph.
By the time, Jack Heuer already headed the company, and we must say, he run it boldly and skillfully.
However, he already entered the history of watchmaking art, as one of the most prominent innovators.
He owns a number of world records: the first automatic chronograph, the first automobile chronograph, the first quartz chronograph with analog-digital display, the first chronograph Microtimer affordable for ordinary people and capable of measuring time intervals up to 1 / 1000 seconds.
Hoyer's ideas were always far ahead of time and sometimes completely incomprehensible to others.
Such, for example, as an attempt to create a concern based on Heuer & Co, Leonidas, and Piaget, similar to the current Swatch Group watch companies, undertaken in the early 80's.
The attempt was unsuccessful; Heuer was even removed from management.
In 1985, the company was acquired by a non-watch research firm Techniques d'Avant Garde (TAG), and since then it is called TAG Heuer.
It is quite a logical story, because, as we have seen, the desire to be in the forefront of watchmaking art was inherent in the company since the very beginning.
It is not the presence of TAG abbreviation in the company's name (as some think) makes it annually showing concept watches Micrograph, Monaco V4, Calibre 360, Calibre S, Diamond Fiction that shock imagination and watchmaking bases...
In 1999, the world's biggest luxury concern Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy bought TAG Heuer controlling stake.
LVMH instructed operational guidance to a young energetic businessman, Jean-Christophe Babin, who immediately returned Jack Heuer to the Board of Directors, appointing him the company's honorary chairman.
His responsibilities included a great deal.
For example, the brand's DNA repair, establishment of links between young and old generations of employees, return of former clients and one of the most creative manufacturers' credibility.
It is important that Jack Heuer is the only active representative of old time Swiss watch guard that went into retirement because of quartz crisis.
When the company is developing under the leadership of family founder's representative, each step not only seems but is thoughtful and logical.
In recent times, which many in the company call "revolutionary", in addition to TAG Heuer Carrera model number includes a host of new collections: an inexpensive democratic Formula-1, practical Link, sports Aquaracer and Professional Sport, aristocratic Tag Heuer Monaco and Monza, conceptual Microtimer and Mercedes Benz SLR ... Surprisingly, but they enjoy a huge success.
No wonder TAG Heuer, along with Rolex, Cartier and Omega is among the four world's leaders in sales.
And this also is a glorious Edward Heuer's great-grandson's considerable merit.
It is his word in discussions about shape or technical equipment of a particular model that is crucial.
"I have eyes, well, or anticipation of what people like and what they don't, - Heuer said. - It's 25 years of seniority and work experience in watch business.
When you create watches for so many years, willy-nilly you start seeing and feeling what others do not see or feel for one reason or another.
Within two years, TAG Heuer celebrates a 150 years anniversary.
Preparations for the celebrations are already active now. This spring the company opened a museum, introducing a new line of luxurious Grand Carrera, Jack Heuer is finishing writing and editing a large book about the brand's history.
They launched very interesting joint projects to develop conceptually new mechanisms (naturally) with a chronograph with Dubois Depraz and Zenith.
They are making their own chronograph arrangement.
Do you know where they will manufacture it? On their own factory, which huge building will be fully completed in 2009 and work at full capacity in an anniversary year.
TAG Heuer will enter a new era being fully armed and in good order.
Well, even science fiction cannot imagine TAG Heuer, limited or restrained in no way.
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