Jewellery & Watch News
TAG Heuer’s all-terrain luxury tool watch is reinvented once again with a sleeker, more streamlined design available in 30mm or 40mm, all while maintaining the undeniable utilitarian DNA of the Aquaracer collection. Meet the new TAG Heuer Aquaracer Professional 200 Series…
The TAG Heuer Aquaracer watch collection can be sourced back to 1978, when Jack Heuer launched the Heuer Reference 844 and shortly after, the 2000 series. These designs were engineered as high-performance sports watches for men and women with a passion for outdoor sports and adventure. The watches were a permanent fixture in the brand’s portfolio up until 2005, a year after TAG Heuer used the Aquaracer name for the first time. Since then, the legacy of the TAG Heuer Aquaracer has remained unmovable with each design sticking to the family’s six design codes: a unidirectional bezel, screw down crown, water resistance of at least 200 metres, luminous markings, sapphire crystal glass and a double safety clasp.
“If you look at the Aquaracer Professional 200, you can see our intention to create an everyday watch that still has the tool watch look that TAG Heuer lovers came to expect from the icons of the past, such as the Reference 844, 1000 and 2000 Series models. It’s an evolution of all this history.” - Guy Bove, TAG Heuer’s Creative Director
Last year, TAG Heuer launched the Aquaracer Professional 300 series which honours the family’s recognisable DNA with some artful improvements on the bezel, lugs and dials. Bringing together all these improvements, the new TAG Heuer Aquaracer Professional 200 series opts for smaller case sizes and slenderer profiles. While the largest Professional 300 watch 43mm in diameter and 12mm thick, the leading TAG Heuer Aquaracer Professional 200 watch is 40mm with a height of only 11mm. There is also a selection of new 30mm models available for women or men with smaller wrists.
All the defining characteristics of the Aquaracer are still there in the TAG Heuer Aquaracer Professional 200 series. There’s the upgraded twelve faceted bezel detailed with a horizontal line decoration, chamfered chambered lugs with polished finishes and three-link bracelets. You can also find screw down crowns with twelve facets which assist in a healthy water resistant rating of 200 metres. The bezels still reveal a classic 60 minute diving scale but this is now engraved onto a steel insert, rather than one in ceramic like those of the Professional 300 watches.
As for the dials of the TAG Heuer Aquaracer Professional 200 watches, the same insane legibility can be expected with just a few subtle changes to the overall geometry. While the Professional 300 watches opted for octagonal hour markers, yellow detailing, and an oversized hour hand, the Professional 200 series elects more classic sports watch codes with straight-edged, trapezoidal hour markers, sleeker sword-shaped hands, and crisp white detailing. The hour markers and hands are still coated in bold Superluminova, a material also applied to the bezel.
What powers each TAG Heuer Aquaracer Professional 200 watch depends on the model you pick. For the 40mm references, there are two automatic and two quartz options and for the 30mm case, you have the choice of two automatics and five quartz watches. The two 40mm automatic TAG Heuer Aquaracer Professional 200 are powered by the Calibre 5 movement and are defined by their gradient dials, date window and detailed minute track. For the 40mm quartz variants, there is no date window and a lightly pared-back look by comparison. The 30mm TAG Heuer Aquaracer Professional 200 watches opt for the Calibre 9 automatic movement or a standard quartz and come dressed in optional diamond indices, white mother of pearl and diamond set bezels.
“With both the automatic and quartz versions, we’ve played on the theme of elegance, giving the watch a narrower bezel, longer indexes, and stronger markers at 3, 6, 9, and 12. It’s more of a street watch in the sense that it’s more elegant and refined, and something you might more readily consider wearing with a suit. That’s why we gave the automatics a fumé dial, for instance.” Guy Bove, TAG Heuer’s Creative Director
To view the TAG Heuer Aquaracer Professional 200 series in more detail and to shop the collection for yourself, head over to the C W Sellors website here. Alternatively, get in touch with the team by calling 01335 453453 or message us at sales@cwsellors.com.
