HEUER Rally-Master 150 YEARS Anniversary Limited Edition Dashboard Mount Timers

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The return of a great classic – HEUER Rally-Master 150 YEARS Anniversary Limited Edition Dashboard mount 8 Days watch and Stopwatch, inspired by the original of 1958.

In December 2011, TAG Heuer’s Professional Timing Department, maker of the world’s most accurate timekeeping instruments, has reissued one of the Swiss brand’s most legendary products, the famous HEUER RALLY-MASTER dashboard timer. First launched in 1958, the RALLY-MASTER consisted of two side-by-side timing components — the 8-days clock on the left; and a 12-hour stopwatch on the right. It went through several evolutions over the next decades, before being discontinued in the 1980s. The new edition combines an 8-day precision, Swiss-Made, 15 jewel mechanical HEUER MASTER-TIME clock movement with sweeping second hand, and a 1/5-of-a-second HEUER AUTO-RALLY mechanical stopwatch with jumping 12-hour disc.

TAG Heuer – Mastering Speed for 150 years
The limited edition re-launch of the historic timing instrument caps TAG Heuer’s yearlong celebration of a century and a half of motor racing heritage. The brand’s – and the world’s – first dashboard timer was the patented TIME OF TRIP in 1911, which saw duty in automobiles, aircraft and boats. In 1933, Heuer introduced the AUTAVIA, a 12-hour chronograph for automobiles and aviation. That same year, it paired the AUTAVIA with the HERVUE, a clock that could run for an astonishing 8 days without being wound.
In the early 50’s, Heuer introduced the 60-minute AUTO-RALLY dashboard stopwatch, followed by the HEUER RALLY-MASTER of 1958, a dynamic duo in a class of its own. Its success is immeasurable: in 1959, Jack Heuer himself, while following the Monte Carlo Rally in a press car, noticed that more than two-thirds of the cars were equipped with TAG Heuer instruments. Ruggedly constructed, it became the benchmark for on-board accuracy, and is widely considered the most legible dashboard timers in the history of watchmaking.

Tracking Down the Master
Through painstaking archival research, the Timing Department located the original designs of the HEUER RALLY-MASTER’s two movements and components. Particularly challenging was sourcing the HEUER MASTER-TIME, a Calibre 28 lever-stop, balance-wheel release clock movement. By working directly with the husband and wife team responsible for the 8-days precision movement’s original construction and assembly — Eric and Dora Montandon of the Swiss company Montandon & Cie — TAG Heuer Timing engineers successfully manufactured a robust new version. This was then paired with the HEUER AUTO-RALLY stopwatch, a complicated movement based on the Heuer Calibre 7780 movement with a unique 0 to 12 hour counter at 6 o’clock, and a crown-operated start/stop and a reset-to-zero function controlled by an oversized, easy-to-use adjacent push button.

An Old Master becomes a New Icon of TAG Heuer Prowess
The vintage timekeeping pair, housed in a stainless steel dashboard double late, is utterly synonymous with the look and spirit of the original. The white hands contrast sharply with the jet-black dial .The crystals are shock-resistant plexiglass. Grade A super-luminova numbers, indexes, hands and pointers on the aluminum turning bezels enhance the retro allure, as do the original HEUER logos stamped on the dials.

The HEUER RALLY-MASTER is housed in a special edition presentation case, it is the must-have TAG Heuer piece of collection, and represents an important moment in watchmaking history.

Ref: HL880 / STH880 / HEUER-RALLY MASTER – Limited Edition

Master Time:
Swiss Made 8 days mechanical movement with sweeping central second hand
15 Rubies
Heuer Calibre 28

Auto-Rally:
Stopwatch to 1/5 of a second with jumping 12-hour disc.
Swiss Made mechanical movement
11 Rubies
Heuer Calibre 7780 (Heuer with Hanhart calibre 126 module)

Both watch movement and stopwatch contain a shock protected balance wheel and an unbreakable and anti-magnetic mainspring within a shock resistant Plexiglas crystal case.

The dimensions of the dashboard double plate measure at ca. 115 mm by ca. 60 mm with a total weight of ca. 800 g.
Total weight including the box and the Special Master-Rally is ca. 2 kg.

Both timing instruments were tested recently by an expert watches technician and the timing precision is guaranteed.


Most of the watches that I am selling are liquidation or collector items, therefor I make no claims and give no warranty regarding continual accuracy of time keeping. Used, antique or vintage watches may need servicing, even if they are in good running condition. Unless otherwise stated they may need to be cleaned, oiled, adjusted and or timed. I cannot guarantee a used watch to be waterproof or water resistant.

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8-Day Power Reserve, Luminous Indexes, Stop-Watch, Swiss Made

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