Heuer Carrera 5100 Lemania Chronograph: Piaget and the movement manufacturer Nouvelle Lémania acquired Heuer in 1983. The Carrera was now equipped with the new co-owner’s automatic Caliber Lémania 5100. Two distinguishing features are the orange, readily legible, centrally axial, aircraft-shaped minute-hand and the 24-hour display at ?12 o?clock.?
 
A Legendary Caliber: the Lemania Carrera Chronograph
The Heuer Carrera in the 1980s
The Eighties were a decisive decade for the future of Heuer: the TAG corporate group assured the future of the prestigious brand. Heuer became TAG Heuer and the Carrera chronograph was reborn with a new movement.
The Quartz Crisis strongly affected the watchmaking industry in late Seventies and early Eighties. Cheap electronic watches from the Far East inundated the world?s markets. Jack Heuer had recognized the trend toward quartz and electronics at an early date and successfully deployed these new technologies in timekeepers for auto races. One of his most successful creations was the Heuer Chronosplit, a quartz wristwatch with a built-in stopwatch function. A quartz version of the Carrera also came onto the market in 1978. The Carrera-Twin series combined conventional hands for the ordinary time of day and LCD indicators for the date and the stopwatch. The quartz-powered Carrera was also available in a purely three-handed version. The traditional brand from Bienne was nonetheless hard pressed to cope with the twin challenges posed b...