Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: TAG Heuer Autavia Heuer-02
Of all the marketing campaigns brands use to attract attention to their watches, one of the more interesting came last year, as TAG Heuer let its fans vote on which Autavia model the company would revive next. This was TAG’s ?Autavia Cup,? a competition between sixteen vintage Autavia references, drawing about 55,000 fans’ votes, and eventually deciding the winner to be the Reference 2446 model, sometimes known as the ?Rindt.?
The original watch, a 1966 piece famously worn by the Formula 1 champion Jochen Rindt, was distinct from earlier Autavia models in its use of applied metal hour markers, straight steel hands, and smaller white subdials. However, that watch (pictured above) retained many features of the early models in the series, including its use of the hand-wound Valjoux 72 chronograph movement, a long-lugged steel case, and the much-loved vintage Heuer and Autavia logos. The modern re-edition of the piece thus works to channel many of the most significant elements of the mid-1960s watch, while making a few key adjustments to provide it with a distinct modernity. The contemporary re-edition, the Autavia Heuer-02 (Ref. CBE2110.BA0687), features a 42-mm steel case with standard round pushers and a black, aluminum, 12-hour bidirectional rotating bezel. Within an outer white minute ring is the watch?s black dial, here hosting applied steel hour markers with faux patina accents, three white ?azurage? style subdials ? a 30-minute chronograph counter at 3 o?...
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