Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1986 in Watches
• Brand: TAG Heuer
• Model: WAB2010.BA0804
• Dimensions: 4.00" h x 4.70" w x 5.20" l, 1.10 pounds
• Band material: stainless-steel
• Bezel material: stainless-steel
• Case material: stainless-steel
• Clasp type: fold-over-clasp-with-safety
• Dial color: black
• Dial window material: scratch-resistant-sapphire
• Movement type: swiss-automatic
• Water-resistant to 984 feet

Features

• Quality Swiss Automatic Movement; Functions without a battery; Powers automatically with the movement of your arm
• Scratch-resistant sapphire crystal; Luminescent hands and markers; Unidirectional bezel with SuperLuminova dot at 12 o'clock
• Solid 41-mm stainless-steel case with engraved diver's helmet decorated caseback; Three-link fine-brushed stainless-steel bracelet with diving extension
• Date function at 3 o'clock; Black dial
• Water-resistant to 984 feet (300 M)

Amazon.com Product Description
Designed for optimal performance both in and out of the water, this handsome automatic watch blends sporty prestige styling with optimal readability. The 41 mm case is crafted from a solid block of stainless steel and showcases a black dial with bold luminous hands and markers and a red-tipped seconds hand. The dial also features a tonal TAG Heuer logo and a date display at the three o'clock hour. Framing the dial is a unidirectional rotating bezel, in matching black, with oversized Arabic numerals and a luminescent marker at the 12 o'clock position. The handsome link bracelet, in brushed steel, fastens securely with a fold-over-clasp with safety and features an extension system so that the watch can be worn over a diving suit. Other notable features include a scratch-resistant sapphire crystal and a screw-in crown and caseback for water resistance to 300 meters. Calibre 5 automatic movement means that this watch winds itself with the natural motion of your wrist and does not require a battery.

About TAG Heuer
TAG Heuer traces its roots to the small Swiss village of St-Imier where, in 1860, a watchmaker named Edouard Heuer opened his first shop. His vision was to create remarkable timepieces that pushed the envelope of innovation and precision. The company's reputation grew, and Heuer's first patent for a chronograph mechanism in 1882 was followed by a long list of achievements: the first stopwatch accurate to 1/100 of a second, the first dashboard stopwatch for race cars, the first miniature electronic timekeeping device accurate to 1/1000th of a second, and the first automatic movement with a microrotor, to name just a few.

Over the years, Heuer's reputation for gold-standard precision earned the company the privilege of providing official timing services for a number of world-class competitive sporting events, including the Olympic Games, the FIS Ski World Cup, and the FIA Formula 1 World Championships. To this day, TAG Heuer maintains a close association with the world of competitive sports and enjoys a devoted following among sports celebrities and enthusiasts. In 1985, Heuer joined the TAG (Techniques D'Avant-Garde) group, and the TAG Heuer name and logo were created. Now one of the most recognized and sought-after watch brands in the world, TAG Heuer continues its reputation of innovative design and technological excellence, creating prestigious timepieces that are always at the cutting edge of precision, reliability and style.

Customer Reviews

The accuracy of automatic watches
This watch is an automatic, meaning that it contains a mechanical movement powered by the action of the wearer's wrist. Some mechanical movements must be wound manually by the user. Neither type require a battery as a quartz watch would. The payoff is that all mechanical watches, however much they might cost, are less accurate than any quartz watch one might buy for $20 from a local garage. The reason that one might pay upwards of $1000 for such a watch is that the movement is a precise, finely engineered example of the watchmaker's craft, and not a simple piece of electronics produced by the millions as might be found in a cheap Casio (to take nothing away from Casio).

The highest quality automatic watches are known as 'chronometers', and must contain a movement that has passed a rigorous set of tests laid down by the Swiss Chronometer Testing Institute (www.cosc.ch). Such a movement will have an accuracy of 99.99%, which is the maximum obtainable. Only 3% of all watches produced in Switzerland each year are certified as chronometers. Briefly, the COSC standard states that a certified movement must be accurate to within -4/+6 seconds per day. Most high-quality mechanical watches can be adjusted by a good watchmaker to meet that level of accuracy. As far as I am aware, this movement (a Tag-modified ETA 2824-2 for the technically inclined) is not COSC certified; however, this does not mean that it cannot meet the standard, but simply that Tag Heuer have not submitted it for testing.

Even chronometer-certified movements are still less accurate than a quartz watch. This is not a problem specific to Tag Heuer, but is common to any mechnical watch, whether it be from Rolex, Omega, Breitling or any other manufacturer. Even Omega's new co-axial movement is not designed to increase accuracy, but rather stability over time. Stability is often considered to be a more desirable characteristic than pure accuracy in a mechanical timepiece (which is in any case impossible); that is, that it constantly gains 6 seconds a day, rather than gaining one day and losing time the next.

Many people (and websites) confuse chronometers with chronographs. A chronograph is a watch that has extra functions and displays allowing the timing of individual events, similar to a stopwatch. This watch is not a chronograph.

When buying an expensive watch, or any other valuable item, it pays to do a small amount of research and understand what exactly it is one is paying for.

I have always been very impressed with the build quality of Tag Heuers; their finishing and reliability is excellent and they are very reasonably priced when compared to other high-grade Swiss watches.

great watch
I have the blue one and love. Been SCUBA diving with it, no problems. It is an automatic, so it's not going to be as accurate as a quartz, but if you buy it from an authorized dealer, they will adjust to make it accurate, usually within a couple seconds a day. You can save a few bucks buying a TAG online, but you're screwed if you don't like it or have problems.

great looking watch, reasonable price
I've had my eye on this watch for a while on amazon before seeing it at a local jewelers on sale. The watch looks much bolder than the picture at the top of this page shows and seeing it in person It looks more like the TAG Heuer Aquaracer Quartz in Black except with a red pointed second hand that looks very classy as it gently sweeps around the face of the watch. The luminescent paint on the hour marks are very bright, but only last for a few hours. They do make the watch look very bold and sporty, and in that regard it's very versatile, I feel like I can literally wear this watch everywhere, in both casual and formal situations, and then be able to go for a swim afterwards with it on.

As a watch itself, it's difficult to justify the price if you're looking at nickels and dimes: it keeps time just like any other watch, and actually worse than quartz watches. But the automatic movement is a marvel to behold if you remember that it keeps time to within a few seconds per day with just gears and springs. (I'm a mechanical engineer by trade and this fact amuses me greatly). Likewise it's a well built, good looking piece of accessory that looks much simpler and classier than the chronograph style watches with a million dials that are popular in this price bracket.

I've had this watch for a week and the accuracy has gone down from gaining 15 seconds a day to about 12 now. These movements have a tendency to "stabilize" over the first few weeks, so if yours gains 15-20 seconds a day at first as some of the other reviews have noted, just give it some time (no pun intended) and then check it in a week or two. You can also get the watch calibrated by a jeweler if you really care about accuracy. Honestly I stare at a computer with a clock for 10 hours a day, so I never need to know what time it is to the second. I was initially pretty hesitant about getting an automatic for the accuracy reason, but after having this watch I realized that I don't really care: it's actually kind of fun synchronizing it to my iphone once a week.

The Tag Caliber 5 movement itself is a modified ETA movement that's found in many other Swiss automatics. It's a little more fluid (10 beats per second) than the Japanese movements, and the discrete ticking is barely noticeable. If it's movement for the buck you're looking for, you'd be better off with an Invicta #9937 which has the same movement for a little over $300. But the Tag excels in not looking like a Rolex knockoff, with bold looks that will get noticed, and phenomenal build quality. This is a watch that I'd want to wear for years to come.