Heuer Carrera Ref. 1153 Strap houses a Caliber 266

houses a Caliber 266

This particular example is a beauty throughout

and looks every bit the part of a true vintage diving watch

Heuer manufactured high grade chronographs that were branded for and sold by other companies

While most of the military watches that we find date from the Vietnam War or later

Heuer Carrera Ref. 1153 Strap houses a Caliber 266In the early 1960s, when Jack Heuer searched for inspiration for a new line of sporting chronographs, he found it in La Carrera Panamerica, the legendary Mexican road race. If youre looking for a through and through racing chrono, the Heuer Carrera is it. Originally, the Carrera was powered by manually winding chronograph movements, but with the advent of the automatic chronograph, production began shifting towards automatic in a serious way. In 1969,