Introducing The New Formula 1 Collection From TAG Heuer
In the mid 1980s, Heuer were storming along with diving watches as well as their new digital LCD timers like the Kentucky, the Senator and the Chronosplit. TAG – the Saudi-owned Techniques d?Avant Garde – were keen to buy the firm. The first watches from the new TAG Heuer company were the F1s – a series firmly linked to motorsport. They?re still going strong today, something underlined by TAG Heuer?s launch of four new models for the start of the F1 racing season. And, let?s face it, watches are the only interesting thing about F1 nowadays (hill, die on, don?t @ me etc). Editor?s note: Bahrain Circuit?s turn 4 notwithstanding.
You have a choice of a three-hander and three chronographs, all with 43mm diameter steel cases and quartz movements. The F1 has always had good genes. The first Eddy Burgener-designed watches were bright, easy to read and even a bit irreverent in a usually starchy industry. Burgener?s original F1 trademark was a prominent, unidirectional plastic bezel, these new watches stick with the bezel but up the quality by using tougher ceramic.
The three-hander, in the best tradition of the robust F1 series, looks like it?ll take a beating. Screw down crown, crown guards and an orange and grey stitched nylon strap that?ll survive plenty of abuse and come up, well, nylon-looking but happy. TAG Heuer tells us, perhaps a little optimistically, that the nylon strap ?…recalls the harness inside a cockpit.? It?s probably the cleares...
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