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As part of the 60th anniversary of the Autavia collection, the first wristwatch designed by Jack Heuer, the Le Locle-based brand is unveiling a piece equipped with a GMT display for those who dream of escape.
In 1962, Jack Heuer, the great-grandson of the founder of the eponymous company, imagined a watch with a rotating bezel and a dial with easily readable displays, following an error in reading the time during a car race that cost him first place on the finishing podium. Named Autavia, a contraction of AUTomobile and AVIAtion, like the famous on-board counters developed in the 1930s by the Le Locle-based firm, this chronograph is now celebrating 60 years since its creation with three new limited-production pieces, including a TAG Heuer Autavia 60th Anniversary GMT designed for globetrotters. With the pandemic gradually receding and after two years of not being able to travel, this timepiece seems to be the outlet for a desire to escape.
The blue face, glowing like the sea under the sun, hosts three silvered hands coated with white Super-LumiNova® for the hours, minutes and seconds, and a fourth one dressed in bright orange for the GMT. Finished with a phosphorescent arrow, the latter points to the 24-hour scale on the two-tone blue (for day) and black (for night) ceramic bezel. Between the large Arabic numerals on the hour circle is the date in white on a black background at 6 o’clock.
At the heart of the 42mm-diameter steel case beats the Calibre 7, a COSC-certified automatic movement that delivers 50 hours of power reserve when fully wound. And on the back, an airplane propeller engraving appears as a nod to the origins of the Autavia name.