The first Calibre 1887 rolled off the workshop’s semi-automatic assembly line in 2010, and won the coveted “Petite Aiguile d’Or” Award at that year’s Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève. To produce it in the volume TAG Heuer’s accelerating growth requires, a dedicated workshop had to be constructed at TAG Heuer’s facilities in La Chaux-de-Fonds (Neuchâtel). The innovative movement took five years and approximately 20 million Swiss Francs to develop. The integrated column-wheel automatic chronograph movement is a tribute to Edouard and Jack Heuer’s historic contributions to Swiss watchmaking: it is outfitted with an audaciously re-engineered version of the brand’s 1887-patented oscillating pinion and it is housed in a new generation of the Carrera, the legendary sports chronograph first launched by Jack Heuer in 1964. To strengthen its lock on the chronograph crown, TAG Heuer launched an in-house manufactured movement, the Calibre 1887, in 2009. TAG HEUER: TWO NEW IN-HOUSE SWISS MOVEMENTS, FOUR SWISS MANUFACTURES This incessant drive to carve time down into its tiniest and most precise fractions continues: in 2012, the TAG Heuer Carrera Mikrogirder, the only mechanical chronograph precise to 5/10,000th second, equipped with a never-before-seen regulating system made of micro blades and beating at an incredible 1,000Hz, won the Aiguille d’Or in the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève, watchmaking’s most prestigious award. ![]() In 1914, Heuer launched its first wrist chronograph two years later, it stunned the racing world with a 1/100th-of-a-second stopwatch. ![]() Jack Heuer’s great grandfather, Edouard Heuer, patented his first chronograph in 1882, and in 1887 patented the 'oscillating pinion' still used by major watchmakers of mechanical chronographs. Of course, by 1969, the company, which opened its first workshop in 1860, had already well established its credentials, especially in the realm of high-end chronographs. The groundbreaking movement and its successors - Calibres 12, 14 and 15 - are among the most innovative in the pioneering Swiss brand’s history, and continue to inspire TAG Heuer designers, engineers and artisans to this day. ![]() In 1969, Jack Heuer and his partners unveiled the Calibre 11, the world’s first automatic chronograph movement, which he housed in the now-legendary square-shaped Monaco.
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