The name Autavia derives from the words AUTomotive and AVIAtion, thus indicating an on-board device adaptable to both machines. TAG Heuer celebrated the Mikrotimer and Microsplit's 100th anniversary by launching an exquisite and mechanically refined commemorative model in 2016: the beautiful Heuer Mikrograph 100th Anniversary, a collector's item you can see pictured here. Heuer dramatically increased its popularity, holding as a leader in manufacturing refined timing systems and becoming an official timekeeper to many International events, like the Olympics and plenty of world championships across different sports. Next in the pipeline was the split-second chronograph, thus allowing the measurement of intermediate times. They were the outcome of a very ambitious project geared towards increasing the measurement accuracy from 1/5 of a second to 1/50 and 1/100 of a second, respectively. 1916: Heuer introduces two milestones in watchmaking: the Mikrotimer and the Microsplit.Īfter launching its first wrist chronograph in 1914, Heuer increasingly became a reference for timekeeping precision by introducing two landmark timepieces: the Mikrotimer and the Microsplit. The Heuer Time of Trip was the forerunner of chronographs then adopted in Rally and endurance racing moving forward. Its name was "Time of Trip," thus visualizing central time, whereas two smaller hands placed in a register at six measured the elapsed journey's duration. Heuer's cutting-edge approach ended up with introducing a dashboard chronograph to apply to a vehicle or an airplane easily. 1911: here is the Time of TripĪt the beginning of the last century, traveling by either car or plane skyrocketed. By adding a colored scale to a pocket chronograph with a sphygmomanometer, whose patent was filed in 1908, Heuer allowed any doctor to determine the patient's heart rhythm in just 20 seconds. In 1908 Heuer introduced the perfect chronometer for doctors.ĭuring a visit to his doctor, Charles Auguste Heuer's ingenuity was instrumental to Heuer making a perfect doctor's chronometer. The aforementioned confirms why the first in-house chronograph movement released in the 2000s carries the 1887 name.
In 1887 the brand improved the "oscillating pinion" system by introducing an improvement that guaranteed no chronograph hand jump during start and stops. This achievement proved that technical innovation was, as still is, a pillar since 1882, TAG Heuer focused on manufacturing pocket chronographs to meet the growing request of precise timing instruments to support sports competitions. In 1869, Edouard Heuer patented the crown-based winding system, thus replacing the key-operated system.
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