Editor's Picks
OnTheDash — Jeff Stein Relaunches His Encyclopaedic Heuer Website
Editor's Picks
OnTheDash — Jeff Stein Relaunches His Encyclopaedic Heuer Website
The Favorites
1. The Collector’s Guide to the Heuer Autavia
2. The Definitive History of the Abercrombie & Fitch Seafarer
3. Paul Gavin Shows Us How to Make a Watch Storage Case
Buried Treasure
Says Jeff: “For the past 15 years, we have pretty much ignored the stopwatch section of OnTheDash. With so many hundreds of models being made over the decades, they are difficult to catalog, and interest in these timepieces, among our readers has been minimal.
“But when we were designing the new OnTheDash, we took a simple approach to the stopwatches, dividing them into three groups: handheld stopwatches, wrist timers, and pocket chronographs. Within the handheld stopwatches, for example, we show the different timing capacities (3-minute, 12-minute, 30-minute, etc.) and the special models (for example, the yacht timers, the Ring-Master, and specialty stopwatches.
The more stopwatches we added, the more we wanted to add. Whether the simplicity of the photographs, the display in the catalog motif, or the importance of the stopwatches to Heuer’s heritage, we wanted to add the thousands of models that Heuer has made over the years. And we are off to a good start, with more to be added soon!”
The Catalogs
“This is the reference number for the Autavia that seems to have been unused for those two decades. Next to the 2446, we see the Reference 2444, but it is entirely different from the Reference 2444 model that Heuer would produce in the mid-1950s.”
1. 1942 Catalog
It appears as if Heuer was sketching out the varieties of chronographs that it might produce, with the actual task of producing the watches coming some years later.
Future Classics
1. WatchFinder, a great way to find that one vintage Heuer you’re looking for
Collectors love the Skipper models. We have seen the vintage Skipperrera model break the $100,000 mark, and both Revolution/The Rake and Hodinkee have offered new TAG Heuer Carreras based on the vintage Skippererra. But what was missing was aa article that established the origins of this model — why did Heuer offer the Skipper in 1967? How did the Skipper change, over the almost 20 years that it was in the Heuer catalog?
To address this missing chapter in Heuer’s history, Revolution’s Tracey Llewellyn commissioned Jeff to write an article. You can read the initial article here. For the launch of OnTheDash, Jeff took that article, and expanded it significantly to offer a comprehensive look at the Skipper models, from the Skipperrera in 1968 to the last model, in 1985.