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TAG Heuer International SA
行业: Timepieces
Number of terms: 702
Number of blossaries: 6
Company Profile:
TAG Heuer S.A. designs, manufactures and markets high end watches, chronographs and fashion. Edouard Heuer founded Tag Heuer in St. Imier in Switzerland in 1860. Originally named the Uhrenmanufactur Heuer AG, or Heuer Watchmaking Inc., the company patented its chronograph in 1882 and the ...
Synthetic material that ensures water-resistance around the crown.
Industry:Timepieces
A small dial (square, round or rectangular) that is stamped on, or set into, the dial of a watch, indicating specific information. In a chronograph, counters display the hours, minutes, 1/10th second and 1/100th second of the measured timing.
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Launched in 1977, the Cortina chronographs took their name from the famous ski resort in Northern Italy that hosted the Winter Olympics of 1956. The series marked TAG Heuer's association with winter sports, where it already had an excellent reputation as the official timer for various World Championships.
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Device fitted on a bracelet (see buckle)
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In addition to the date, a complete calendar shows the month, the day and sometimes the phase of the moon. The date has to be manually adjusted in months that are shorter than 31 days.
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A watch function, apart from the simple indication of time, that involves a supplementary mechanism. Examples of complications include: automatic windin, chronograph, phases of the moon, perpetual calendar, chiming minutes, and tourbillon. These last three functions are referred to as "Grands complications."
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Launched in 1975, the Chronosplit was the world's first quartz wrist chronograph. It had an LCD/LED display accurate to 1/10th second.
Industry:Timepieces
The case is comprised of the bezel, the middle and the back. It protects the watch movement. Its most common shape is round but it can also be oval, barrel-shaped, square, rectangular or some other design.
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A watch with hands showing the hours, minutes and seconds, but which also features a mechanism for measuring continuous or interrupted units of time, from a fraction of a second to twelve hours. This supplementary mechanism is operated manually by push-pieces that set in motion, stop and return the hands to zero. The chronograph hand or seconds-hand indicates seconds, fifths of seconds or tenths of seconds. Counter hands total minutes and hours. Thanks to digital display and quartz movements seconds can even be divided into hundredths and thousandths.
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Launched in 1977, the Chronosplit Manhattan GMT was the world's first quartz wrist chronograph with both an analog and a digital display, accurate to 1/100th second.
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