Behind every iconic watch there’s a timeless story. Welcome to A Matter of Time, a podcast by TAG Heuer.
Hosted by Nicholas Biebuyck, Heritage Director at TAG Heuer, we dig into our archives to bring you untold stories of our watches and how they have influenced sport and popular culture through time. In the first season, we explore the enduring legacy of the TAG Heuer Carrera.
Hop into this time machine and discover how everything is simply A Matter of Time.
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Behind every iconic watch there’s a timeless story. Welcome to A Matter of Time, a podcast by TAG Heuer.
Hosted by Nicholas Biebuyck, Heritage Director at TAG Heuer, we dig into our archives to bring you untold stories of our watches and how they have influenced sport and popular culture through time. In the first season, we explore the enduring legacy of the TAG Heuer Carrera.
Hop into this time machine and discover how everything is simply A Matter of Time.
1949: Solunar - the first wristwatch with a permanent tide indicator
A Matter of Time
6 minutes 44 seconds
2 years ago
1949: Solunar - the first wristwatch with a permanent tide indicator
Season 2: TAG Heuer and the ocean |
In this second season, we explore TAG Heuer’s intimate connection with the ocean. We turn the clocks back to 1949, when Heuer was creating watches for Abercrombie & Fitch. Discover how a watchmaker, a physics teacher, and a passion for fishing and mushroom hunting led to the birth of the Solunar, the first wristwatch with a permanent tide indicator.
Image: Heuer Solunar, 1949 Reference
Show notes:
0:42 The Abercrombie & Fitch years
1:10 A challenge from Walter Haynes, President of Abercrombie & Fitch
1:59 How a tide indicator works
2:42 Mushroom hunting and a school physics teacher
3:14 The Solunar
4:30 The tide indicator on the Solunar
A Matter of Time
Behind every iconic watch there’s a timeless story. Welcome to A Matter of Time, a podcast by TAG Heuer.
Hosted by Nicholas Biebuyck, Heritage Director at TAG Heuer, we dig into our archives to bring you untold stories of our watches and how they have influenced sport and popular culture through time. In the first season, we explore the enduring legacy of the TAG Heuer Carrera.
Hop into this time machine and discover how everything is simply A Matter of Time.