1860 • Edouard Heuer founded his watch shop in Saint-Imier, Switzerland.
1864 • Business flourished, and Edouard Heuer moved to Bienne.
1869 • Edouard Heuer took out a patent for a winder with autonomous crown.
1880 • Heuer was the first watchmaker to go into mass production of chronographs.
1892 • Death of Edouard Heuer, leaving a considerable fortune.
1902 •Jules and Charles, Edouard Heuer’s sons, took over the family business, determined to widen the range of special watches.
1910 • Charles Heuer created a doctor’s chronograph with a scale for measuring pulse rate.
1911 • The firm put its first car clock on the market.
1916 • HEUER obtained the patent for the MICROSPLIT and launched ladies’ jewel watches with bracelet in leather or gold.
1930 • HEUER had a water resistant case patented.
Launch of the MONZA line.
1949 • Launch of the SOLUNAR with tide indicator.
1963 • Launch of the CARRERA range of chronographs.
1964 • On January 1st, Eduard Heuer and the LEONIDAS WATCH FACTORY, Saint-Imier, merged to become HEUER-LEONIDAS.
1965 • First chronograph with ring date indicator.
Launch of the MONACO, the first square, water resistant chronograph, immortalised by the actor Steve MacQueen in the film LE MANS in 1970.1975 • La CHRONOSPLIT was the first quartz chronograph with double digital display (LED and LCD).
1983 • HEUER unveils the first quartz chronograph with analog time display and memory for intervals of time measured.
1985 • Takeover of all the company’s shares by the group TECHNIQUES D’AVANT GARDE, owner of the Mc LAREN formula 1 stables, and a new name for the company, TAG-HEUER.
1996 • TAG-HEUER floated on the stock market.
1997 • Launch of the KIRIUM.
1998 • Production of new version of the MONACO.
1999 • The L.V.M.H. Group acquired TAG-HEUER for 1.2 billion Swiss francs.
Launch of the LINK.
Launch of a new range, ALTER EGO, exclusively for women.
2003 • TAG-HEUER sponsored the AMERICAS CUP.
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