Articles in the Easy-Rider Category
Read all Calibre 11 articles featuring the Heuer Easy-Rider, a low-cost quirky 1970s Chronograph promoted by the legendary Jacky Ickx.
Easy-Rider, F1 Racers, Series Overview »
Very little is truly new in the world of Swiss watches. Take the Calibre S movement introduced in 2007, which combined the reliability of a quartz movement with a mechanical chronograph module of an automatic Calibre. Innovative? Sure, but we’ve been here before, as TH itself had a similar movement in the Calibre 185 used in the 1980s. The titanium case of today’s watches? Again, a technology first used almost 30 years ago.
I was reminded of this recently when I was looking at the first Formula 1 series from 1986. …
