Heuer Autavia Orange Travel and quite the rare bird

and quite the rare bird these days

The Heuer Carrera turned 50 years old this year

the case back in compressed

There were three watch groups racing to be the first to release an automatic chronograph in the late 1960s

Heuer Autavia Orange Travel and quite the rare birdIt strikes us as somewhat ironic that while Heuer is perhaps best known for introducing the Calibre 11 (through Project 99) automatic chronograph movement and inserting it in some of the most iconic 1970s timepieces ever produced, our favorites from the brand are almost always the "lesser" versions powered by good old fashioned manual winding Valjoux movements. There's a multitude of reasons for this seemingly odd preference: For starters, as