Tag Heuer Link Automatic Chronograph watches
Easily one of the worldsa€™s most recognized and a renowned manufacturer of sport watches, Tag Heuer is, and always has been, an industry leader in the development of new technology and innovation. From its early days as a small factory in Switzerland to todaya€™s modern company Tag Heuer has always striven to reach new horizons in quality, precision and design. With its original designs and many patents the company has long been a leader in horological circles. Some of its patents and innovations include the first crown winding mechanisms, one of the first patents for water resistant watch cases, the worlda€™s first sports stop watch, the first automatic chronograph, the Microtimer and more.
Due to aggressive marketing (using sports heroes like Tiger Woods and Kimi Raikkonen… and Hollywood celebrities like Uma Thurman and Brad Pitt in their advertising) TAG Heuer has built very solid and luxurious reputation among the non-watch enthusiast circles.
However Tag Heuer is not just a watch for the worlda€™s sports elite but a watch that is valued and worn by many individuals who value it simply for its unique styling and solid dependability. The mena€™s line has a variety of models designed to impress the most particular of buyers and the ladies line provides beauty and style in a unique and breathtaking manner.
The crown is a standard screw-down crown and it operates normally. Pushers are rather stiff but function firmly and solidly. This watch has perfect subdial spacing. This is still rare to see.
The sapphire crystal glass is pretty tough. In fact, I have more marks around the stainless steel bezel than on the glass. By the way, it is a synthetic sapphire that is also shatter resistant.
As I was new to automatic chronograph, I was surprised that chronograph buttons were so stiff. I guess it is mechanical after all. The crown is screw in type, as you expect from a 200m watch and nothing special about it other than to say that the manual winder is unidirectional so you have to turn clock-wise to wind it up. Turning anti-clock will just free spin. This is also the case with automatic winder inside the watch. You can feel it spinning in one direction freely and you can hear the ratchet like winding noise when turning the other way. Some people have noticed this free spinning weight and call it the wobble.
What might also surprise people who are new to automatic chronographs is that the second arm/hand that normally rotate does not move. Instead, it is the left-most sub-dial that tells seconds. The main second arm/hand is used for chronograph function (stop watch). I have heard of people who didna€™t like this and used the chronograph function in time with the actual second hand!
The Link bracelet is a famous TAG “trademark”, and will make this watch easily recognizable among the watch people… and perhaps even among non-watch people, too. It has very original and innovative design and it’s completely different from all other sports watch bracelets. It’s very attractive, goes really well with the brushed case and polished bezel and feels comfortable on the wrist. The Link bracelet has very “different” resizing method.
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