Heuer Carrera Chronomatic 1553
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The Heuer Carrera 1553 added a single-register automatic execution to the Carrera line in 1972, powered by Heuer's Caliber 15, an evolution of the Caliber 11 built for the Chronomatic project: Heuer, Breitling, Hamilton-Büren, and Dubois-Depraz's 1969 race against Zenith and Seiko to market the first automatic chronograph. (TIMELINE.WATCH) Because the micro-rotor module was built onto an existing manual chronograph base rather than designed around it, the crown sits at nine o'clock rather than three, the Chronomatic family's signature quirk; the 1553 pairs that layout with a single 30-minute counter, a date window, and a tachymeter scale, unlike the three-register 1153. Masatoshi Nagase wears the reference as an advertising director in The Naked Director season 2 (2021), per Jackroad's costume-loan archive. (Jackroad)
Appearances
| Title | Year | Type | Actor | Character |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Naked Director (2019) | 2019 | TV Series | Masatoshi Nagase |