Articles in the Caliper System Category
Read all Calibre 11 articles featuring watches with the Caliper system. The Caliper is used on the TAG Heuer Grand Carrera Calibre 36 in order to allow the 1/ 10th second precision to be read.
Caliper System, Heuer Watches, Scales, TAG Heuer Watches »
Scales. Indispensable to the obsessive cook, but also something that has clinched the sale of a few watches over the years too.
Some scales are more or less essential, like the days marked around the outside of the dial on a perpetual calendar:
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Others add additional functionality to the watch and it is these we will be looking at in this article. It’s interesting to see how trends in these sort of scales come and go – some are rarely seen in modern watches whereas others are just as popular as they …
Caliper System, Grand Carrera »
As has been stated here at Calibre 11 previously, the pick of the current TAG Heuer range in my eyes is the Grand Carrera Calibre 36 RS- the top of the successful Grand Carrera range featuring the El Primero movement.
What distinguishes the Calibre 36 Caliper from other models in the Grand Carrera range is the Caliper system, an ingeniously simple way of allowing the chronograph to display 1/10th second accuracy. The Calibre 36 movement has always been able to achieve 1/10th second precision, but the challenge has always been how …


