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2021 TAG Heuer Aquaracer 300- Consolidated thread
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路Oh there is a HUGE difference when it comes to material. I've dealt with steel, aluminum and titanium, on the manufacturing side. I've also dealt with steel and titanium as far as refurbishing watches. I can tell you right now, that seiko and tag heuer titanium are not even in the same ball park. Seiko also tends to have hollow titanium links. But when it comes to actually working on that titanium, it's night and day between brands. Is it worth an extra $1000 on top of steel? I don't know. Depends on the watch and the manufacturing processes that had to go into it. I mean hell, tag heuer isn't worth how much they charge in the first place. But that's another matter entirely. Up charge for titanium can indeed be justified tho, but of course it will be upcharged to the same degree that tag heuer is already upcharged. I mean, look how much we are paying for a movement so cheap, that even counterfeiters are using them in their fake watches.
I appreciate that Titanium is more difficult to machine (I work in the engineering industry and with suppliers to F1 teams) but the 拢1000 upcharge seems more arbitrary than a genuine reflection on the increased costs.
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He forgot to add the PAID PROMOTION warning on this one 馃檮 馃榿or maybe its an older video..
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路I want to love it... but I dont know. Probably great in person but I doubt I will ever see this one irl.
He forgot to add the PAID PROMOTION warning on this one 馃檮 馃榿or maybe its an older video..
That cyclops and 6 o'clock date...
Its just such a mess of different design cues, look at it next to a bb58 and it looks like a real mess.
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路yes
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路All those bloody hexagons!
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路All those bloody hexagons!
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路Crown is nice though. I wonder if they considered making that hexagonal?
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路Yes you are right. It has a perfect crown. I guess I will preorder that 拢4200 crown perfection right away. Exciting stuff.
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路Why did you have to mention the hands, I'd stopped noticing and now I'm noticing them again.
HODINKEE: We love the hands on this quintessentially awesome tribute to the original Aquaracer...
HODINKEE: We love the hands on this quintessentially awesome tribute to the original Aquaracer...
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路Thad commercial from Time and tide also talked about the hands as something positive. I think they look too small. Or too short. Or both.
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路They look like they are from two different sets.
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路Regardless of everything else, that cyclops is horrible.
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路Ah yes, that too! Maybe Arnault pointed them out in a catalogue from a hands manufacturing supplier?
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路I do really like the new Aquaracers when I have not seen them for a while. In my memory they turn great. But then I see them again and dont like them. So key seems to be not to look at them.
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路Aaah will have zees oune from zees set and zat oune from zere...
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路I do really like the new Aquaracers when I have not seen them for a while. In my memory they turn great. But then I see them again and dont like them. So key seems to be not to look at them.
Excellent strategy
