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Heuer timepieces.

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February 11th, 2026

30 Collectors, 90 Watches and One Epic Table Shot (from the 2024 TAG Heuer Collectors Summit)

I sometimes enjoy task-repetitive projects. Give me a spreadsheet that lists 592 models of Heuer chronographs, tell me the 30 items of information that we want to present for each model, and some months (or years) later, I’ll have most of those 17,760 fields of data filled in. To add images of catalogs to OnTheDash,

December 27th, 2022

Scrapbook – TAG Heuer Hosts Vintage Collectors GTG in NYC

On December 8, 2022, in New York City, TAG Heuer hosted a dinner / get-together for the community of vintage collectors. Held at Veronika Restaurant, this was the first gathering of U. S. collectors in over four years. It was a wonderful evening for all those who attended, as collectors renewed acquaintances, met some new

February 13th, 2017

Vintage Heuer Collectors Summit 2016 (and Jean-Claude Biver Introduces the New Autavia)

On September 11 through 13, 2016, TAG Heuer hosted its first Collectors Summit of the Jean-Claude Biver era, at company headquarters in Switzerland. To open the Summit, Mr. Biver (CEO of TAG Heuer and President of the LVMH Watch Division) welcomed the Summit participants at the Hotel Palafitte, in Nauchatel. The following day, Summit participants would

March 17th, 2016

The Match-by-Match Guide to the Autavia Cup — Round One

Today, TAG Heuer has launched the Autavia Cup competition, a month-long event in which enthusiasts will cast votes to determine which Autavia the company will re-issue in 2017. The competition consists of a series of head-to-head, knock-out matches, in which each winning model will advance to the next round of the competition. Sixteen Autavias are

March 10th, 2016

The Enthusiast’s Guide to the Autavia Cup

On Thursday, March 10, 2016, TAG Heuer announced that the brand would launch a social media based contest, to allow enthusiasts, collectors and customers to select the model of 1960s Autavia chronograph that TAG Heuer will re-issue in 2017. This contest, called the “Autavia Cup”, will commence on March 17, at Baselworld, with the winning watch to

March 3rd, 2015

The Reader’s Guide to the Upcoming Patek Philippe Auctions

Over the next eight days, we will witness two historic auctions, in Geneva, Switzerland, that will offer for sale the most legendary Patek Philippe watches that our generation is likely to see under one (or two roofs). On Sunday, November 9, 2014, Christie’s will celebrate the 175th anniversary of Patek Philippe with an auction of

February 12th, 2015

Remember the Good Old Days . . . Before OnTheDash?

We launched OnTheDash on February 12, 2003, with an email message to 80 recipients. A few days ago, I received a message from one of these recipients, who I have been in touch with from time to time over the years. In his message he reminisced about the good old days, shared some thoughts about

November 6th, 2014

Contest: Predict the Hammer Price of the Graves Supercomplication

If you are reading this, then you probably already know the basics. The Patek Philippe Henry Graves Supercomplication watch is the most complicated watch ever produced by humans (without the aid of computers) and holds the record as the most expensive watch ever sold at auction, achieving a “hammer price” of $10 million at a

November 3rd, 2014

The Reader’s Guide to the Upcoming Patek Philippe Auctions

The Reader’s Guide to the Upcoming Patek Philippe Auctions Over the next eight days, we will witness two historic auctions, in Geneva, Switzerland, that will offer for sale the most legendary Patek Philippe watches that our generation is likely to see under one (or two roofs). On Sunday, November 9, 2014, Christie’s will celebrate the

October 23rd, 2014

I Said, “Wanna Have Lunch?” He Said, “Sure. Wanna Buy a Watch?”

One of the special pleasures of this watch collecting hobby is that, every once in a while, we get to actually meet the wonderful people that we chat with all the time, by e-mail, on discussion forums, through Twitter and Facebook, and by telephone. Over the years, one of my favorite “pen pals” has been

January 27th, 2014

Vintage Heuer — The Best of 2013

2013 was a fantastic year for the community that collects vintage Heuer chronographs. The community had 30 members participate in a Summit in La Chaux-de-Fonds, TAG Heuer celebrated “50 Years of the Carrera”, we saw new books and websites dedicated to the vintage Heuers, and activity on our discussion forums reached an all-time high. In

October 8th, 2013

Vintage Heuer Collectors Summit 2013 — Two Reports

The 2013 version of the Vintage Heuer Collectors Summit took place on September 1 and September 2, 2013, in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, the home of TAG Heuer. In this posting, we present two reports from the Summit, the first by event organizers Paul Gavin, Ron Henselmans and Abel Court, and the second by our regular

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