Tag Heuer Movement

[srosatellite]

I'd like to have couple of this brand watch.

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Sep-20-2011d 화요일 pm 2:38

[MultiBulletproof123]

genius

[dproffessa]

Swiss watches are ridiculously overpriced, and their after sales service stinks.  Bloody highway robbery is what you call it.

[AntDX316]

timing.. is.. everything

[jcksonyeow]

i got a tag too but its quartz movement. cant wait to buy an automatic one

[KinetikPlayground]

Do they make a calculator watch??????

[FanTagHeuer]

Shut your mouthes, trash talkers!

You are getting paid on web forums and message boards to dis Tag Heuer?

I got a Tag and it works perfectly fine.

[rickylain]

watches were hand made back in the days, and is consider a master piece of art. now it's all machine made. name brand watch makers just show you a video of one hand made watch and sell you a watch that's machined in china and finished in swissland. some rich ppl are just too stupid to realized that, or they are just too rich and don't care.

[jcksonyeow]

nice design of the movements

[nm7775]

@jcksonyeow

I love TAG Heuer movements especially the Calibre 16. I have one and think it is fantastic.

[Desmonddd2002]

i thought Tag Heuer don't make their own movement? 

[Kg277]

My shitbox casio $12.95 watch outperforms these things by a mile!

[fjoefourty]

What kind of "hand made" are we talking about here? As far as the hand build engine of a Ferrari is concerned, the person installing the piston rings didn't smelt the ore from the dirt, nor did he carve the components into their final shape. A hand made Swiss movement is not different than a Seiko if the outcome yields comparable quality . Keep in mind the nature of time pieces that were actually hand made from scratch, and how they stack up to watches made in the 19th century with a pantograph.

[regalgsme]

Tag is hand made, Seiko is robot made. so which takes more percision and skill?

[scanme214]

@regalgsme robot ofcourse.

[novan3]

What's that red rubyish colored thing?

[pillmeup]

@novan3

That's called a "Jewel".

In the world of watches synthetic Jewels like that are used as bearings. So when you hear of a mechanical watch having "X" Jewels, it's referring to how many of those red rubyish things it uses.

[q83]

@novan3 synthetic rubies.

[lustnusk]

No sound?

Mediocer..

[lazercrocdt]

when it says " 36000 vibrations per hour " why don't they just say 10 vibrations per second because not only it makes them look like they're tryin to make it sound as if its a very high number, it also means that you can't imagine how fast it really is (unless if u want to sit wait for 1 hour ). Its alot better to say 10 vibrations per sec bease u can wait for 1 second then say "10 vibrations gone!"

[Catalyph]

@lazercrocdt Because they could 36000 is a more accurate number than saying 10 per second. This is a PRECISE time piece. 36000 per hour is a more precise number and has more value and meaning.

[SmarteHGP]

when purchasing a fine automatic watch, you are not doing so to know the time, and avoid costly repairs, you are purchasing an heirloom. A fine watch is something to be handed down for years. One doesn't spend thousands of dollars on a wristwatch to know the time....watch the patek phillipe video called birth of a legend....there is a gear that only turns once every four years to skip leap year....that is precision.

[timk913]

just a thought... people who value watches... buy them because of their craftsmanship. Its a work of art that functions both pragmatically and beautifully. If a rich man chooses to look at it as a symbol of wealth and power, than that is his prerogative, likewise for the poor man. However, no one would argue that an automatic watch keeps better time over the long term... for this a quartz crystal would be your best bet. It is the labor, care, and craftsmanship that goes into producing a Tag.

[fullbora]

Hahah..all the haters and detractors out there, there's only ONE reason and here it is..YOU CAN'T AFFORD A TAG HEUER SO THEREFORE YOU CRITICISE THOSE OF US WHO CAN...easy answer..get your shit together and earn some money!

[WORLDARYANREVIVAL]

@fullbora ..or youre so fuckin dumb to fall fo advertising and your stuck wit shit and are to embarrassed to admit u ve been taken in! im no commie but..people who make lots of money are usually limp dick fucks who wouldnt survive the collapse of society ...i got news for u ..food dont come from supermarkets! and splitting stocks cant catch ur food u depraved fuck. money is ez..work on your character u fuck!

[UltraViolence14]

@fullbora tags are crap wouldn't waste my money and its not because i cant afford it i own Rolex's Omegas Seikos and longines watches so suck it

[goweb172]

@UltraViolence14 Yeah blingin out with ur Seiko's innit! (not serious)

[UltraViolence14]

@goweb172 7000 dolla seiko ye its a good watch

[UltraViolence14]

@goweb172 yup funny

[DAKOTA56777]

The animation makes it look easy to make. lol

[narutoFanxxxx]

@DAKOTA56777 yeah it does i have like 40 watches i could put together and what i'm doing is finding one that has all the pieces take it apart put it in order and its still not easy,mind you i'm only 15

[dakaraabbccdd]

there are too many fake Tag watches out there.. so becareful when purchasing them...

[taofledermaus]

Very cool animation. Most watches the balance wheel only oscillates 18,000/hour.

[danyel5748]

cule mondaquera de bacana

[elvislandia74]

LOOKS REAL and i didn`t spend all my money...i got the original box and papers, why spend $4000 :-))

[elvislandia74]

I own a fake TAG HEUER Calibre 17 and a Mercedes Benz SLR £55 each.... :-))) all automatic...

[HackebeilHarry]

@elvislandia74 You paid way too much, they cost 5EUR at the Fake-Markets here in Shanghai.

[parthhalani]

I own a tag Heur.....worth $4000

[jascha100]

good for you

[throxnet]

rich and poor never be friends haha

[TheWankaFromSriLanka]

..ive been looking for a decent watch for years and finally saw a lovely automatic tag carrera which my wife got me for christmas. i absolutely love it and wouldn't swap it for anything. there are those who appreciate a good well made watch and those who don't. if you do more power to you, if you don't fair enough...stop hating get over it.

[TheWankaFromSriLanka]

....why would you spend $50 on a pair of addidas when you can buy a pair of plimsolls for a fiver? they're both made in china and do the same thing. why buy gold jewellery when brass looks almost the same. would you buy a diamond engagement ring for your fiancee or a cubic zirconia...they both look the same and no one will know. the fact of the matter is buying a watch is a very personal thing....

[TheWankaFromSriLanka]

wow check out all the haters...lol! what person goes to the trouble of looking for a subject on you tube just to rubbish it? its like going to the cinema to see a film you know you'll not like just to piss off all the people who want to see it . i think you must have a very narrow minded 'anal' view if you think buying a watch for more than a few hundred quid makes you a retard or a vain idiot.........

[fissional117]

Most collectors would put the value or worth of those watches above what they cost anyway. Again if you don't understand what makes those amazing you aren't the type of person to spend that kind of money. And unless you actually plan on spending the money on something the price of it should not matter.  That's like saying a tree in Africa should never be priced at 3000 dollars, if you don't ever plan on buying it in the first place why does it matter to you how much an object cost?

[fissional117]

Assemble something by hand that small that is fully mechanical and automatically wound, and holds accurate time to 1/10th of a second. See how much you want to get paid just for putting it together. It's not even about that. Watches like that are usually collected by mechanical or engineering freaks that are obsessed with things like that. If you can't understand what makes that watch worth $3,000 dollars you shouldn't own one anyway.

[throxnet]

True, higher price means the better quality, in most cases are.

[DrBjamin]

ANYTHING can be art.. doesn't mean it's worth $3,000 fucking dollars. Christ man, all a watch does is tell time. I swear, all it takes is a few idiots to think something's great and, voila, other idiots are clamoring to get it. How Pavlovian.

[AziMeX]

Lol, spoken like a scholar.

[laurencepak]

have some commercial sense. When you buy a pair of Nike for $50, guess how much the factory cost was? probably $5. When you buy a t-shirt, the same thing matters. Gross profit margin is pretty large for basically everything. Its not only the factory workers that are getting paid, in fact in a time like we are in today, the factory cost is probably only a small part: things made cheaply in China still needs to be distributed in the US, for example.

[laurencepak]

If a t-shirt that is made for $2 in a factory is sold for $30 in retail stores, does it surprise you that a magnificent watch that might costs $500 or 1000 to make is sold for $5000 or $10000?

when you buy something premade, you aren't just buying the manufacuring of it ..you are also buying the distribution, the retail shop hires salespeople, cashiers, janitors, those are all jobs that needs to be paid too. they are all part of the costs of running a business.

[tuchitochi]

all costs of running a business yes, but some you must admit are marked way up by brand name alone. especially brands that sell themselves like Rolex and Vacheron...you don't see many adverts on them but heck don't they make one big bang of a margin.

[SeymourButtz99]

Rolex is one terribly overpriced brand and the most counterfeited.

A Rolex on your wrist is immediately suspect since the majority of their models are bland in appearance and the perception of an expensive watch is gold plate, chrono functions or diamonds and Rolex's with any of those features really spike in price and into Zenith or Hublot territory and just those two and several other brands exceed Rolex by quantum leaps.

[NAPALMJUNKY]

No one would bother doing stressful high paid jobs if they didn't get rewarded with things that destinguished them from the middle and lower class. Expensive watches are a status symbol to show other people how successful they are, it's that simple, so yes you're right when you say "all it does is tell the time". It's like watching a monkey flash it's bright arsehole at another monkey in order to showoff that its the dominant monkey. lol I still love Tag though, it's very well made.

[SeymourButtz99]

For naysayers who disagree with NapalmJ and think Tag or other Swiss pieces are overpriced / they're wrong.

You buy a Tag or another fine Swiss brand for the legacy, there are numerous examples of 100 and 200 year old Swiss watches still running and on the wrists of heir's and not in a museum.

You'll never see a Citizen or Casio on the wrist of grandchildren.

If you measure time, then measure it with respect, if you don't know any better than keep wearing your rubber strapped Casio G-Shock .

[NAPALMJUNKY]

I agree 'Bart', Hay , at the end of the day the product just looks great and its so well made. Thats all i care about. I know what i like and i like what i see. IF it costs me $2-3k i'll save up and get one. If spending that amount on a watch freeks some people out then i say get a job, or watch some james Bond movies to develop a sence of sofistication and style. LOL or stick with being the opposite of what girls find attractive in a guy. You can't look good wearing a $50 rubber watch, LOL

[fatboybozo]

not everything can be art only what people percieve to be! would you rather buy a five pound watch that lasts for a couple of hours at most or buy something that will last for generations, something that your grandchildrens grandchildren will wear

a watch may just tell the time but its the matter of how it does it that really makes a watch

[SMARTChiropractic]

Bah.. you're making the mistaken assumption that cost equals quality.. or durability. My father has a 45 yr old Seiko that still runs just fine.. never been serviced once. I know lots of friends who've had to send in their Bulova's and Tag's to be serviced numerous times. Especially the automatic winding models. Cost is NOT reflective of value. Never has been.. . never will be.

[throxnet]

in most cases are.

[DrBjamin]

NEVER... Mercedes and BMWs cost a lot more than Lexus and Toyota but they're repair rates are horrible. I've jokingly come to refer to my beamer as a Bring My Wallet. Your problem is you've never OWNED really expensive shit, so you're talking out of your ass and not out of experience :)

[throxnet]

They are still better quality.

[zherming]

sry ur bmw is a bimmer not a beamer. unless it's a bike ure talkin bout.

[b14bom]

lol! funny fuka haha

[lolcat23]

@SMARTChiropractic thats comparing apples and oranges. that seiko. is it quartz?

also this : cost is not reflective of value, never has been, never will be. no?

What is value? how do you value things? So what you mean to say is this. cheap stuff is the best stuff? cause otherwise your previous statement is wrong. because if some more expensive stuff is better then some cheap stuff then, yes, cost is reflective of value - sometimes.

[melbournaut]

@SMARTChiropractic The only way to get quality is to throw lumps of cash at the situation and wait for results. If the CEO at TAG headquarters needs chinchilla bogroles such is the cost of quality.

TAG invented time and you use that every day so stop being hypocritical.

[jtreac]

@SMARTChiropractic - yea sure you make a valid point however in terms of style tag heuer rapes seiko hands down

[adswu2008]

@SMARTChiropractic You are a complete retard , pay 10 dollars for a watch and you get shit pay 500 Dollars and it will be better .

Cost IS reflective of Value always has been and always will be .

Keep buying chinese shit , now that is reflective of breeding and education

[aruzic]

@adswu2008 Cost is NOT always reflective of value. So I can sell you some crap and say it costs 500 USD and you would put it as a high value item? Like Oscar Wilde said:'Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.'

But for watches specifically, their is a price range where you will get good quality. When you go higher you will get little difference in quality FOR THE AMOUNT OF MONEY you pay.

[aruzic]

@aruzic Forgot to say- If you can appreciate the difference than the extra money is worth paying!

[adswu2008]

@aruzic The problem here is that people think cost and improvement are linier, the fact is cost for improvment does equal percentage of gain.

Example

To get improvment in the gear train and better timekeeping you need to polish the gears and make them with more precision, to do that it would take 5 x longer and cost 100 x more but the improvment would only be 5-10% . In essence if you want the best its because you can afford it and that takes understading of quality not concern for cost.

[SacreDro]

@SMARTChiropractic Right you are man.I think russian watches and japanese ones are good watches for the money.

[sovietninja3]

@SMARTChiropractic what about Rolex then

[q83]

@SMARTChiropractic

Bulovas aren't high-end watches. They're an American brand using (mostly) Japanese movement, and compare well with Seikos. Tag, Omega, IWC, etc... all mostly use movement from the same company - Valjoux - extremely solid, but not flawless. I don't believe that cost equals quality, but people are paying for a brand, and the brand has to remain reputable by putting out quality products.

[DrBjamin]

@q83 Uh... what are you talking about. Bulova has been using the Valjoux 7750 movement for like over 3 decades in their automatic watches, same as Longines, Breitling, Omega, IWC, etc... In fact, as I'm aware, until Omega came out with their new Coaxial movement, EVERYONE has been using Swatch movements for the last 30 years. Sooo... there's very little difference between each brand besides price and name.

[q83]

@DrBjamin Bulova also sells some lower end watches with Japanese movement.

[DrBjamin]

@q83 And TAG also makes crappy 1 jewel ETA movement watches.... so what exactly IS your argument here? You've made 3 erroneous statements... so far all we're seeing is your uneducated opinion on the subject. Sounds like you simply believe that the brand/price automatically equals quality, which is fine, but you can't state opinion as fact.

[q83]

@DrBjamin What were my 3 erroneous statements? Did you even read my first comment? "I don't believe that cost equals quality" is what I said. I also stated the same thing you did, in that Omega, IWC, TAG, etc use the same movement. The point of my first post was that high cost watches aren't any WORSE than low-cost watches; I don't believe that a $3,000 TAG keeps better time than a $300 Seiko, but I also don't believe that $300 Seiko keeps better time than a $3,000 TAG.

[bellci]

@SMARTChiropractic Sad but true...

[IdontneedanIpod]

@SMARTChiropractic Yeah I have never liked Tag Heuer but you have to realise mechanical watches need to be serviced every 5 years or so to keep good time, even extremely high quality watches like Patek Phillipes. By the way my Dad has a seiko from 1983 and has worn it every day since then and the only service it has needed since then was a new glass over the digital display.

[xInfected27x]

@SMARTChiropractic Most Japanese Brands Are Reliable

[lolcat23]

@DrBjamin 3000$ is nothing for a watch. And yes, watches only tell the time, just like clothes only cover your body. or wait. do you perhaps buy specific clothes because they please you more then cheap second hand clothes?

[mountainrider2007]

impressionnent la qualité de fabrication pour que cette mécanique tienne des années!

J'ai la chance d'avoir un magasin Omega a coté de chez moi, ils ont la montre que porte Daniel Craig dans Quantum of Solace. Une merveille a très peu d'exemplaire.

[joesmyth45]

i love tag heuers, im 15 now and just brought my fist tag. its a f1 chronograbe with a stainless steel bracelet. im in love with it! lol. before that i had an armani ar5815. tag heuers are ausome!!!

[TwiceVicodin]

learn how to spell before rolling with the big dogs

[jaywray1]

im gettin a citizin 8700 eco drive very soon badass looking watch then when im 16 (14 now) im gona move up to tag or omega it'll mean alot of work for me but i gota stop my dads taunting about his rolex breightling and omega HA why arnt kids (17 or under) as interested in watches as i am? cause im original >:D

[toloene]

its ART !

[sergiolorenzon]

This is a Zenith Ell Primero movement.

[19651819]

Use google to search "dailyfleamarkets" then have a look at the website, where you can find more cheaper stuffs.

[MI6MI5]

Because it is a Tag Heuer. Compared to Rolex, Omega, Patek Philippe, Vacheron Constantin, IWC etc. it is crap.

[1stab]

At the risk of wasting my time, I'll suggest that the line of watches that you mentioned are superb but each has what can be considered a flaw or disadvantage. I'll give you just 1. Some Rolex auto movements do not have ball bearings but an axle type design for their rotors. Result - friction, wear, and stress on the train. This requires more maintenance. Price is not the sole indicator of quality or good design.

[MI6MI5]

would you even consider tag heuer as a luxury watch?

[1stab]

No, I wouldn't -- not even close. But, again, if you consider the quartz line of say, Omega and Tag, they have the same ETA movmements.

[lolcat23]

@1stab and who says ballbearings are better? the way rolex does it is very good. period. When ball bearings are this small, they become very very fragile. and sensitive. so they too, are a problem sometimes.

[AziMeX]

Some of the watches you mentioned may as well have been manufactured in China for $50, and multiplied by a factor of 1000 to rob vain idiots of their money.

[iceman3514]

agree! roughly 80% of swiss watch brands produce their watch components in China or Hong Kong. Why? Labor cost & raw material is cheap;)

[lolcat23]

@iceman3514 thats a number pulled out of your ass. you have no idea what you are talking about! For a watch to have the mark "suisse made" or "made in switzerland" on them, a great majority of the work and parts must come from switzerland. The watchmaking industry is huge in switzerland. exactly because the work must be done in switzerland.

[XMrStainX]

cool i think i ll be buying 2 of those watches.hahahahaha

[webmebonaire]

Crap? Hahahahahaha!

You have money for buy it?

Yeah, i know. For this you called crap.

[dimonalmaty]

why is it crap watch u retard???