Carrera Leonidas

Historically, "school pieces" marked the completion of the three years hard school to become watch maker. The most important "Ecloles d'horogerie" were Porrentruy, St. Imier, Le Locle an a few others. The schools purchased "raw materials" (cases, hands et

Just picked up this interesting little Heuer. Seller said from the 50s, but given the movement has Heuer Leonidas stamped on it, probably from the 60s? The two things that spoke to me in pulling the trigger was the color of the dial and the shape of the l

Whenever I look at the beautiful watch pictures on PPro, I took it for granted that it was easy to take close up pictures of watches. Well... this morning was quite a struggle not to have a blurry picture. The watch is a split chronograph Leonidas. Does a

Lending a Hand - How Heuer was saved by an arms dealer By Su JiaXian Before TAG, it was Heuer. Founded by Edouard Heuer in 1860 at St. Imier, Heuer specialised in stopwatches and chronographs. The company made a significant contribution to horology with t