Fashion Swiss Watches

We all know that Switzerland is famous for its high quality watches. As one of the slap-up Swiss watches, Tag Heuer watches are called “Swiss Avant-Garde since 1860″. Though Tag Heuer is a division of luxury goods company LVMH Moet Hennessy, Louis Vuitton and is always connected with luxury watches, it is especially famous for its replica sports watches and chronographs. Furthermore, it even issued the first automatic Chronograph of the world.

Back to the middle of 1960s, two groups were in contention for introducing the first automatic chronograph of the world. The members of one group included Seiko and Zenith while Tag Heuer, Breitling and Hamilton made up the other group. The projects were carried out in secret since none of the competitors wanted the other companies to know their progress. At last, both groups claimed to be the first to introduce the first automatic chronograph of the world. However, most agreed that the group of Heuer, Breitling and Hamilton was the first to do so as they showed their new lines of chronographs in lavish press conferences on March 3, 1969 which is a month earlier than Seiko and Zenith.

The first automatic chronograph movement was called Chronomatic. Under the name of caliber 11, it was used in some different Heuer, Breitling and Hamilton models. With Heuer, it was initially used in Autavia, Carrera and Monaco. One of the remarkable features of these models is that the winding crown was on the left side of the case and the pushers for the chronograph were on the right side. This change was innovated because of the special design of the Chronomatic. With its two units (basis movement unit and chrono-section unit) attached with screws, the Chronomatic required the winding stem with the crown to be removed to the position of the 9. As the watch wouldn’t need to be wound up by hand often, it was agreed that the chronograph buttons would be better located on the right side of the case.

In the next few years, Heuer expanded its line of automatic chronographs to include more models, such as Daytona, Montreal and Silverstone etc. . All of them were powered by the Caliber 11 movement.

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