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Another watch of the 60s released to capitalise on the growing popularity of motorsports was Heuer’s iconic Carrera. Named after the notoriously dangerous Carrera Panamericana road race of the 50s and the brainchild of maverick CEO Jack Heuer, the original Carrera ref. 2447 was inspired by modernist architecture and designed for maximum legibility, and would prove to be more famous than another important AAA perfect replica Tag Heuer motorsports watches released in the 1960s, the Autavia wristwatch.

Eschewing an external tachymeter bezel in favour of a more streamlined design, Jack Heuer targeted the Carrera at gentleman racers, positioning it as the best copy watches you could wear from the track to dinner. One of its big innovations was its “tension ring”: an angular ring of steel that held the watch’s crystal in place, improving its water resistance while also providing greater visual depth (a design feature TAG Heuer has harkened back to with the current Carrera Glassbox).

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In 1969, three concerns raced to release the world’s first automatic chronograph: Zenith, Seiko, and the Chronomatic consortium made up of Heuer, Hamilton, Buren, Dubois Depraz, and Breitling. Ultimately, Zenith would be the first to announce their movement (hence “El Primero” – “The First”)… Although it was actually Seiko who was the first to get one to market, the ref. 6139, albeit initially only in Japan. However, the Chronomatic movement – and the cheap super clone watches that utilised it – still represent some of the most important horological developments of the 1960s.

Hamilton and Breitling called the movement the Chronomatic, while Heuer called it the Calibre 11, and put it in a number of watches, such as the Autavia and, you guessed it, the Monaco, which is probably the single most famous Chronomatic watch and has gone on to become an iconic watch design in its own right. The high quality fake TAG Heuer Monaco watches were the world’s first square automatic chronograph – a technical challenge that Heuer overcame with aplomb – the Monaco would really become famous in the 70s when it appeared on the wrist of Steve McQueen in Le Mans (1971). It’s wild to think that both the Monaco and Carrera, inarguably (TAG) Heuer’s most famous models, both emerged in the 60s…