Soon after that, the Heuer logo was added to the dial so the watches were co-branded with both names Aquastar and Heuer.
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In 1965 Heuer entered a partnership with Aquastar and began to distribute the full line of Aquastar watches, including the Aquastar Regate, the first real regatta yachttimer powered by the Felsa 4000N movement.
Heuer’s sailing heritage extends back to the first Heuer Solunar(Solar/Lunar) of the 1940’s that featured the ability to monitor high and low tides, and the Heuer Mareographe (also sold in the USA by Abercrombie & Fitch as the Seafarer) in the 1950’s. You can read a very nice overvieuw of 25 years (1959-1984) of the older Heuer handheld and wrist stopwatches and chronographs compiled by Henrik on his Heuerchrono website, see here, and another one compiled by Jeff Stein on his OnTheDash blog, see here. Page from the 1961-62 Heuer catalogue with the Yacht Timer stopwatch worn round the wrist. End 1950’s the first models of a Yacht Timer stopwatch worn on the wrist came into sight. And with the affinity with sports in general, a regatta Yacht Timer for sailing sports couldn’t fail. Heuer grows in the first half of the 20 th century by building many dashboard timepieces, to be used in cars and airplanes. The patent of Heuer’s first chronograph is from 1882!
Since then the brand has set many major milestones of high-end watchmaking, especially in the field of chronographs and ultimate precision. Edouard Heuer started his watch company in 1860 at St-Imier in Switserland.
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