: It's good to remember that without Heuer's dominant position in
: stopwatches -- for scientific, automotive, sports and boating
: applications, among many other purposes -- we probably would not
: have ever gotten to the great 1960s and 70s.

Agreed, great collection Jan, it's too easy to overlook the stopwatches sometimes. It reminds me a bit of Enzo Ferrari's attitude to the road cars for the first couple of decades - he built them for money to better go racing. Without the stopwatches and timers to bring the cash in, we might never have seen the chronographs we all love.