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Lending a Hand: How Heuer was saved by an arms dealer

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Lending a Hand - How Heuer was saved by an arms dealer

By Su JiaXian

 

 

 

Before TAG, it was Heuer.

 

Founded by Edouard Heuer in 1860 at St. Imier, Heuer specialised in stopwatches and chronographs. The company made a significant contribution to horology with the invention of the oscillating pinion (also known as cam) in 1886, which replaced the more expensive column wheel and is the most prevalent type of mechanical chronograph today.

 

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