Wed 23 Jun 2010
TAG Heuer’s New Aquaracer 500 Automatic Chronograph
Posted by The Breitling Source under Tag Heuer[2] Comments
While I love the aesthetics of Tag Heuer’s new Automatic Chronograph, I still wonder why they have not spent more effort on creating a new in-house movement (UPDATE: Turns out the Caliber 1887 is indeed partially in-house, but whether it is 100% in-house is debatable). The new Aquaracer 500 line is fantastic in looks, but I am hoping that with all these new in-house designed calibers such as the Caliber S, the Caliber 360 and other experimental stuff that they do, why is there no true 100% in-house Chronograph or even a base movement for a brand that so closely associates themselves with timing and chronographs?
While Breitling was slow to the game, Tag is even slower. At any rate, they still design some very nice looking watches, and are still desired by the many out there as the gateway watch to the eventual Rolex.
June 23rd, 2010 at 11:41 pm
What about the Calibre 1887? There is some dispute as to how “in-house” it actually is, but id say that its some very nice progress.
June 24th, 2010 at 8:21 am
I had to read up a bit more on the Calibre 1887 as the last I had read on it claimed it was basically a Seiko movement. Now that I have read the updated discussions I guess it could go one way or another. I kind of dismissed the whole thing as Tag using a base movement and hiding it, similar to the what they claimed with the Caliber 360. I have tremendous respect for the module they devloped in-house for the 360, however.
I personally don’t really know how I feel about this how…