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Mspeedster
·Yes, I'm not deliberately being a dick. It honestly feels too small on me. I tried on the Montreal a few weeks ago and it felt like a toy.
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Jim Dollares
·In that case, how is it that you love and wear so many 35mm Formula1s? Also, aren't many of your other '90s TAGs similar in size to the 39mm Carrera?
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·In that case, how is it that you love and wear so many 35mm Formula1s? Also, aren't many of your other '90s TAGs similar in size to the 39mm Carrera?
I know. I guess it's partly the design of the watch, the fact that it's not on a bracelet maybe... the environment (it being the smallest thing in the shop). But even then, when I had Jim's Carrera here at home it looked and felt tiddly. Particularly when I looked at the back I found, it looked like a modern TAG but 90% scale.
I don't really have a good answer for you. In the past I've sold 37mm and 40mm watches because I thought they were too small and then bought countless 37mm watches of different thicknesses. I'm currently wearing a 39mm Aquaracer and I would say it feels bigger than the Montreal. I guess it's what you get used to, and when I look at a 2000 I expect it to either be 37mm or 39mm depending on the model...
Maybe it's because my Calibre 16 is 43mm and the Montreal is slimmer and smaller.... even then it seems more than 4mm smaller.
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Yago
·Part of it has to do with the milky wrong no doubt (here we go again). My 39mm 3hand Carrera looked quite a bit bigger than the 39mm dato.
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·I think also I struggle with the fact that Jim's carrera cost more than my Heuer 01. When you look at them it seems to me the work in making the Heuer01 with its separate lugs, pvd titanium case, skeleton dial etc... the carrera is just a very simple steel case.
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·Plus the Heuer01 has a cool Seiko movement...
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·I bet 99% of people would say the H01 looked more expensive...
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·I bet you best shut up and stop talking smack about my watch. Pfff, have you seen the silver dial. You cant put a price on that perfect execution. It probably took TAG Heuer a decade of dial research and colour sampling to achieve such glory beautiful perfection. I read on Hodinkee that the Heuer01 was just an off the shelf Seiko watch kit ("build your own watch, chronograph kit for beginners") they licensed to put a TAG Heuer logo on it.
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imagwai
·I read on Hodinkee that the Heuer01 was just an off the shelf Seiko watch kit ("build your own watch, chronograph kit for beginners") they licensed to put a TAG Heuer logo on it.
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imagwai
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Perfection
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Look at it. Look at it and weep.
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·Yours doesn't even have a date!
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·Pfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffft
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·I suspect you're joking, but to avoid the myth being perpetuated, I believe closer to the truth is that TAG Heuer bought the patent for a chronograph movement design from Seiko but engineered and built it in house, with their own improvements and finishing.
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