Lewis Hamilton
At aged 9 a confident Lewis Hamilton, flush from a karting race, announced to McLaren team boss Ron Dennis that he wanted to race McLaren cars one day. Dennis told him: “call in 9 years and we’ll sort something out.” In less than 3 years something was sorted: a spot as the youngest person ever on the McLaren Driver Development programme. Several years later, only 12 years after he introduced himself to Ron Dennis, Hamilton got his F1 drive.
Since he joined team Vodafone Mercedes McLaren in 2007, Hamilton has added Vice-Champion (2007) and World Champion (2008) to his racing titles. 2010 saw fighting for the title until the last Grand Prix in Abu Dhabi, finally finishing at the 4th position and greatly contributing to the team’s Vice-Champion title. No doubt we will see him next year in the front lines to fight again for the World Champion title.
An air of easy affability makes you forget Hamilton’s steely nerves and aggressive attack on the track. Listen to him commenting favourite track curves: he gets gleeful talking about taking this one “at 200mph, not touching the brake, just hoping you get round.” This pure excitement about racing is something Hamilton shares with TAG Heuer, whose passion for the sport has inspired timepieces across generations.
Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button wear the Carrera Calibre 1887 Automatic Chronograph – a 21st Century evolution of the 1964 Carrera designed by Jack Heuer. The Calibre 1887 is a highly sophisticated mechanical movement produced in-house at TAG Heuer’s atelier in the Swiss Jura Mountains. Beating an impressive 28,800 times per hour, the Calibre 1887’s 39-jewel movement is made of 320 components, all working efforlessly together for ultimate precision.
At aged 9 a confident Lewis Hamilton, flush from a karting race, announced to McLaren team boss Ron Dennis that he wanted to race McLaren cars one day. Dennis told him: “call in 9 years and we’ll sort something out.” In less than 3 years something was sorted: a spot as the youngest person ever on the McLaren Driver Development programme. Several years later, only 12 years after he introduced himself to Ron Dennis, Hamilton got his F1 drive.
High functionality and masculine styling make this Calibre 16 Automatic Chronograph a necessity for all lovers of motor racing. A stylish day and date function is positioned at 3 o'clock. A high-tech Calibre 16 automatic movement powers the chronograph functions like central seconds, plus minutes and hours. An open flange design with red accents and large numerals allow for easy readability. The sapphire crystal fitted into the caseback reveals the movement in action.
The contemporary sports watch inspired by motor racing. TAG Heuer never rests on its laurels. In 1887, Edouard Heuer made history with the oscillating pinion. For our 150th anniversary, we have given it new life and re-engineered it in-house, to create the Calibre 1887. In 1964, Jack Heuer himself designed the Carrera series, in honor of the 'Carrera Panamericana Mexico', history's most grueling automobile endurance race.
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