The Breitling Watch Blog

One brand that I keep getting sucked in by, even though I rarely keep them for long periods is Tag Heuer. Every time a new model comes out, it usually appeals to be from a design standpoint and I decide that if I ever find one for a good deal I will buy it. Quite often I do, but then its a Catch and Release, and I am back to zero Tag Heuers in my collection.

Same is the story with this Caliber S. Liked it a lot, but its just not my kind of watch. Perhaps its the branding? Perhaps its the fact that its too pedestrian for this snobby watch collector. Granted I’m happy to wear Breitling and Rolex, so I couldn’t be that snobby.

Anyway, back to the TAG Heuer Caliber S:

As you can see, the one I picked up is a beautiful blue dialed example, complete with the applied semi-circle multi-purpose subdials. I really like the new applied dial accents that TAG has started to use in the last few years such as the Geneve-Striped examples on the Grand Carrera watches. Like all TAG Watches, and nearly every other high-end watch brands, the case is milled from a solid block of 316L Stainless Steel.

Those subdials are responsible for telling the date and the 100 of a second timing when in Chrongraph mode. Additionally, they also allow you to set the perpetual calendar that the watch has. This Hybrid “mechaquartz” movement from TAG Heuer is quite remarkable. It contains as many parts as most Automatic movements, in fact.

Unlike its younger brother, the Aquaracer Regatta, this Aquaracer has the push-button released bracelet clasp as opposed to the cheaper fliplock clasp. The larger 43mm diameter case is also much more impressive than the 41mm on the Regatta model.

Overall a great-looking watch that can be had for a song on some of the watch forums due to TAG Heuer’s somewhat tarnished image, especially with their Quartz watches. Since this watch is essentially a quartz watch, it does not maintain its value nearly as well as it’s Automatic counterparts, and can often be picked up for 1/3 of retail!

Word to the wise: Do not buy quartz watches new!

The new Breitling Wingwalkers aeosuperbatics team! Check out their plane and their tricks. Another addition to the Breitling sponsored fleet of Aircraft acrobatics. These guys stand on top of their panes and dangle from them – something you won’t catch me doing!!

Just posted a new video review of the Breitling Skyracer. Beautiful professional line watch from Breitling that replaced the B-2 and Hercules watches, using similar movement as the Hercules using the two-hand minute and hour chronograph totalizer but adding a date complication. Enjoy.

Drass, a company that has been manufacturing and designing dive equipment for years, has come out with a line of watches, made in Italy. They have three lines, the Tungum, Sat Dive Tungum and the Sat Dive line. All watches use the Selitta SW 200 movement, and come in either Stainless Steel or Tungum Pipe, which is a special type of metal used for saturation control panels and diving bells. Almost looks like Anonimo meets Breitling Numerals. The round Tungum line resembles the Manometro watch too… I’m disappointed with the lack of originality here.

Download the Drass Watch brochure here

Urwerk continues to innovate their Rare Species Collection with the addition of the White Shark to their collection, which is produced in a limited edition of 24 pieces. The watch features the caliber UR 7.02 movement, which has their patented revolving satelite complication for telling the time. The hours are shown on the point that is within the minute scale, and points to the current minute. What looks like a Moon Phase indicator is actually a Day-Night indicator, much to my chagrin! Day-Night moonphase look-a-likes are a pet peeve of mine.