Heuer Stopwatch – 150 years Limited Edition – LE 0863/1860 – HL 810

Heuer Stopwatch – 150 years Limited Edition – LE 0863/1860 – HL 810

Exceptional Heuer stopwatch with white round dial with a minute sub dial at 12 o’clock. The seconds are marked with black Arabic numerals. At 6 o’clock is engraved Heuer in red, 9 jewels and 1/5 (one/fifth second chronometer).  3 pushers at 12 o’clock for the functions chrono, split seconds as well as 30 minutes timer.  It is a “Swiss Made” model. The back case is in stainless steel with engraved outside “Swiss Made Since 1860 – Heuer – 150 Years Limited Edition – No 0863/1860 - HL 810”. Manual winding movement with 9 jewels.

History

The company was founded by Edouard Heuer in 1860 in opening a watch comptoir (dealership) in Saint Imier. In 1864, he moves to Bienne with a signed “E Heuer & Compagnie”. 1869, he applied for a patent for an “Independent crown-winding system”. In 1880, he is the first watch producer to start on the series production of chronographs. In 1910 Heuer creates the “doctor’s chronograph with pulsometer. In 1916 Heuer register a patent for the “Microsplit”. 1930, Heuer patented the design of waterproof case. 1949 comes the “Solunar” and the magic “Carrera” in 1963. 1964, Heuer merged with Leonidas S.A. Since 1999, the company is owned by the LVMH Group. In 2006, the “Carrera 360” took up the mantle of the “Microsplit”, a stopwatch accurate to 1/100th of a second.

Technical details

Manual winding 9 jewels.

Measurements

Diameter excluding winding crown: 55mm


Length including lugs: 55mm