HANDS-ON: The TAG Heuer Connected Golf Edition can actually improve your golf game
If we’re honest with ourselves, luxury sports watches aren’t actually designed to be used during sport. Sure, they are more robust than your typical dress watch, but the most adventurous situation they are designed to find themselves in might be diving into glittering Capri waters from the deck of a sailboat, maybe suffering a small knock to the case as you haul yourself out of the warm sapphire waters. The TAG Heuer Connected Golf Edition is different. It is a luxury sports watch that is designed to be used while playing sport. And not simply as a passenger during an activity, but to play an important role in quantifying your activity, and even improving your performance. The source of this possible improvement to performance is two-fold, and shines a light on the consideration that has gone into making the watch so much more than a notification device on your wrist. Before getting into the ways it can impact performance, let’s take stock of the watch itself. The TAG Heuer Connected was first released five years ago, with the most recent expression of it released this week in the generation three, available in a range of different colours. It was only…
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The world has kept spinning through the ongoing horrors of COVID-19 that continue to unfold day to day. And, excluding a brief golfing ban in Australia — that also stretched, quite bizarrely, to kayaking and stand up paddle boarding — plenty of people have sought respite from cabin fever on the course. Me, on the other hand, I’m not a golfer. I’m a perfect mix of low skills and high standards, with a peppering of competitiveness. It makes me a nightmare to tee off against. So, when the new TAG Heuer Connected Golf Edition landed in our mail room, neither I nor anyone else in the team was going to fit the bill to give it a proper road-test on the course. So we called in a friend, Jamie Glazier, who not only owns an enviable URL — dare2dream.com.au, but a business as a golf performance coach. If anyone could tell us if this watch was actually going to add value on the green, it’s this guy. We followed up this extensive video review with a Q&A with Jamie below. In other news, the year’s least surprising and best telegraphed watch release happened right on the date it was rumoured to be…
Editor’s note: It doesn’t happen very often, but sometimes you can have your cake and eat it too. The Bulgari Octo Finissimo Chronograph GMT Automatic is one such occasion, where packed into an ultra-thin, ultra-modern watch, you get the two most practical complications a wristwatch can offer. A GMT and a chronograph. That’s right, in this angular meeting of form and function you get two complications that are rarely seen together, but are integrated here remarkably well. Let me say this plainly from the outset. The Bulgari Octo Finissimo Chronograph GMT Automatic is just so impressive. Not only is it the world’s thinnest automatic chronograph (ever, no fancy caveats needed), measuring 6.9mm for the full watch, and 3.3mm for the BVL 318 movement alone. But (and more importantly for me) it looks and feels good on the wrist and is exceptionally user-friendly. For me there are two big points in favour of this watch. One: the form is flawless, unmarred by obvious, ugly pushers. One of the genius moves of the Octo’s angular design is that it allows for the near seamless integration of geometric pushers that extends the existing look, rather than adding some clunky lumps to one side.…
While still in its infancy compared to the historical juggernauts of the horological world, Ming is already turning heads for all the right reasons. One of the heads they have turned is none other than John, who took a chance on a brand he hadn’t known a whole lot about and purchased the Ming 17.06 Copper earlier this year. Despite typically focusing his collecting on the big-box brands that we all know and love, John was curious at what the fuss was all about, and if a smaller brand such as Ming could live up to the rather high expectations he had for his watches. Upon receiving the watch, he quickly came to understand what the brand represented. Ming didn’t represent centuries of history and watchmaking methods steeped in tradition, as most watch brands focus their marketing dollars towards. Instead, Ming was about a few very passionate people who wanted to make something different, and get all the details right. As anyone who has pledged money towards a Kickstarter project watch will know, when you strap a brand new watch company’s product to your wrist, the details are what makes the difference — and it’s the details that are most often…
Editor’s note: We all love blue watches. That much is clear, with the popularity of the blue dial stainless steel sports watch escalating almost beyond belief in 2019 and still in 2020. Both vintage and modern examples of blue watches from a few of the best watch manufacturers in the world command ever-increasing prices as appetites grow more ravenous and the size of the plate remains relatively unchanged. But as you might expect from the watch collecting community, the pulp of the matter lies in the details, and not all blue watches are created equal. Blue and white are a popular pairing, from antique ceramics to dive watch dials, but there is a colour combination that is somehow even more enchanting. Blue and gold. It’s a pairing many hoped for from the just-released Tudor Black Bay 58, only to be disappointed. And you can’t blame them, because the potential is well and truly captured in the stunning, sparkling Grand Seiko SBGE248. Grand Seiko has something of a reputation for finely finished understatement. This watch is, well, a little extra. That’s not to say that the Grand Seiko SBGE248 isn’t as finely finished as you’d expect, it’s just that, thanks to its popping…