TAG Heuer has commemorated the 100th anniversary of one its most historically important timepieces with the launch of the 2016 Heuer Mikrograph 100th Anniversary. The new Mikrograph pays homage not to a historic Heuer wristwatch, but rather to Heuer’s Mikrograph stopwatch of 1916, the first stopwatch to time to 1/ 100th second precision.The new Mikrograph is designed to be worn as… Read More
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