ANNOUNCING: We are selling 10 TAG Heuer Autavias with Collector’s Pack and exclusive event, launching Monday
** The TAG Heuer Autavia with Time+Tide Collector’s Pack will be available in the Time+Tide shop from Monday 16th July at 9am, or Friday via a newsletter resale. To subscribe to the newsletter, click here. ** The reaction to the TAG Heuer Autavia re-release was hardly a slow-burn. The curtain was drawn back at Baselworld 2017, people cheered, and frankly, the applause has kept going. And going. For 18-months and counting. The extended encore is not just to do with those perfect Panda proportions, it’s also on account of the four (!) major limited editions of the Autavia re-edition that have dropped since. They are the long-awaited Calibre 11 ‘Jo Siffert Collector’s Edition’, limited to 100 pieces and sold out within a matter of hours, the warm tobacco tones of the Dubai Watch Week edition, the Hodinkee ‘Orange Boy’ and the Jack Heuer Birthday edition. Needless to say, if we were going to do a ‘Collector’s Pack’ to augment the sale of a watch it would have to be this one. And we’re coming to the party. For the standard selling price, $7050, we are also including: An official TAG Heuer camel strap as well as the TAG Heuer steel…
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Every year, the Bell & Ross design team goes nuts with an incredible and (sadly) hypothetical vehicular creation. This year it was the Racing Bird, an awesomely streamlined take on a prop-powered racer, the sort of machine you’d see at the Reno Air Races. Of course, while the plane is conceptual, the watches are very, very real. Built off the base chassis of the vintage chronograph, the BRV2-94 Chronograph is at once modern and gloriously old-school. The case is near perfectly proportioned, 41mm across, though the crown guard and screw-down chrono pushers add a little breadth. It doesn’t sit too high on the wrist either, despite the sweet domed sapphire. This sizing, combined with the classic style and solid bracelet, give the watch a timeless yet purposeful character. While the appeal of the watch’s design might be eternal, the details are very much of an era — the ’70s. This time is recognised as a golden age of sports watches, with watchmaking innovations like the automatic chronograph, as well as the popularity of sports that required them. It’s also a time unafraid of bold colour. It’s the punchy personality that the Racing Bird plays with, taking a lustrous off-white base…