Elvia Automatic Diver Cervo Techniques d'Avant Garde acquired Heuer

Techniques d'Avant Garde acquired Heuer and released the Formula 1 line of watches as their first watch under the new brand

by the way — is in excellent condition

000 bph) movement that was also used in the Grand Seikos of the time

has been retailing timepieces for generations

Elvia Automatic Diver Cervo Techniques d'Avant Garde acquired HeuerSo many interesting watch brands have been lost to time. From the well known to the completely unrecognizable, any number of Swiss brands failed to survive the Quartz Crisis of the 1970s, folding completely and disappearing or being rolled up into conglomerates that pillaged their stores of parts. Elvia is one such brand. Frankly, we couldn't find out much about them whether they had their own factories or whether it was simply a contract licensee, we