Companies
Premiere companies in the professional handheld stopwatch space:
Casio
Hanhart
Seiko
TAG Heuer
Casio
Hanhart
Seiko
TAG Heuer
One of the original few of Swiss producers of mechanical stopwatches; now a global luxury watch maker with still a heavy link to the timing industry. Part of the Luis Vuitton Moët Hennessy (LVMH) luxury goods group. As with every luxury watch maker, TAG Heuer timing solutions are just a niche in the company’s overall business.
Current models: TAG Heuer HL-400 Pocket-Pro Electronic Stopwatch in nine versions for different sports and other application areas. Each stopwatch can be connected to a computer with a TAG Heuer-supplied program via USB cable. The program is available exclusively as a Microsoft Windows application. Rare in the industry, cable and program also allow Firmware updates of these high-end stopwatch mini-computers. Here’s an overview video.
Model HL-400-DF is special in that it can be used in conjunction with Swiss-born Dartfish‘s myDartfish Express sport video analysis app, which supposedly starts and syncs data with the operation of the HF-400-DF. The connection is via Bluetooth. Here’s the announcement by TAG Heuer from mid 2016.
| Code (links to website) | Name (links to one-pager) | Summary | Other |
|---|---|---|---|
| HL-400-A | Athletics | For athletics timing including interval and sprint training as well as the Beep/Bleep test | Manual | Video | Video (B[l]eep Test) |
| HL-400-C | Circuit | For motorsports circuit racing (vs. rallies) | Manual |
| HL-400-DF | Training “Dartfish” | Stopwatch for sprint training and swimming, in particular for cadence data, with special support to connect to the Dartfish video analysis app via Bluetooth | Manual |
| HL-400-I | Industry | For timing industry processes at 1/10,000 of a minute precision | Manual |
| HL-400-J | Jumping | For horse show jumping, the Equestrian competitive event | Manual | Video |
| HL-400-P | Pilot | Provides flight times and fuel times for pleasure and general aviation pilots | Manual |
| HL-400-R | Rally | For timing motorsport rally events | Manual | Video (Start Marshals) | Video (Stage Timer) |
| HL-400-S | Swimming | For swim training and swim events | Manual | Video |
| HL-400-W | Winter | For various skiing events including cross-country skiing with interval starts and mass starts | Manual | Video |