The WatchTime Q&A: TAG Heuer Heritage Director Catherine Eberlé-Devaux on the Year of the Carrera
TAG Heuer celebrates its 160th anniversary in 2020, with an emphasis on its most famous watch model, the racing-inspired Carrera. Thus far, the market has seen two limited-edition heritage pieces, one reviving the storied silver-dial Carrera from 1964, another adopting the signature features of another vintage chronograph, the Montreal; along with a historically inspired redesign of the modern Carrera collection. I discussed the Year of the Carrera with TAG Heuer?s Heritage Director, Catherine Eberlé-Devaux.
WT: Where did the Heuer Montreal get its name and what made that model a cult classic"
CE: It was launched in 1972, and because it comes from Jack Heuer?s era, most people think that the name comes from the Canadian Grand Prix, but that?s not the case because Formula One motor racing wasn?t established in Montreal until later in the 1970s. However, the name was quite famous thanks to the world exhibition from ?67 and the Winter Olympic Games held there. In fact, the Montreal was not envisioned as a motor racing chronograph like the Silverstone, Carrera, and Monaco. The Montreal has a tachymeter scale and a pulsimeter scale plus the regular chronograph, so it?s really a versatile timepiece, a more universal type of tool watch. We picked the dial of the Montreal for this limited-edition Carrera because of its unique symphony of colors, each used for a specific purpose: blue for the pulsimeter, red for the tachymeter, orange for the chronograph, all...
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