TAG Heuer Carrera 'Tête de Vipère' Chronograph Tourbillon Chronometer

Although it has generated anger in some quarters, the race for the implementation of traditionally very expensive complications at increasingly low prices is an interesting point, namely sufficient economies of scale and modern manufacturing. It is possible to produce reliable and functional versions of traditionally extremely expensive complications at surprisingly low prices, even astonishing ones. Of course, you give up the tedious finishing tasks by hand, and you have lower expectations in terms of complexity and quality of numbering, but at current prices for a perpetual well finished (for example) of one of the Big Three (or four, if you want Lange too), this alternative approach means that many people can have big complications today, which could not be five years old.

In any case, the Tourbillon Chronograph 02T seems to be here to stay (although the price has reached $ 17,000, I note, it remains a low price! Low! Compared to the standards of modern haute horlogerie). As a way to soften the pot, TAG Heuer launched this year a new version of the watch, which is a certified chronometer. And that's not all you need to know about the COSC system; instead, the watches will be certified by the Besançon observatory, not far from the northern border of the Swiss Jura.

Besançon had at one time a flourishing watch industry which, at its peak, employed more than 20,000 workers; there are only about 1,500 people working in the watch industry, which collapsed due to the quartz crisis - especially with the closure of Lip in 1975. The Kew observatory in England and Geneva was busy chronometer certification and it still does it from time to time. The specific certification mark of the observatory of Besançon was and still is the so-called Viper's head - the viper's head. Besançon certified its first chronometer - a marine chronometer - in 1897, but left the firm in the 1970s; In 2006, however, it began to accept watches for certification again, TAG Heuer Carrera 'Tête de Vipère' Chronograph Tourbillon replica watch and since then about 500 watches have been approved as chronometers.

If you were not a fan of the original design in 2016 - even if you are impressed by the price - the Viper Head will probably not change your mind; an open dial, a sports chronograph with bezel and ceramic casing with whirlwind (and of course a chronometer certification a bit inside the baseball) does not scream the Everyman clocks of the roofs.

I must say, however, that in ceramics, I was very impressed with the execution - the case is crisp and the dial, even though the design can lift your clamps, is as clean as a whistle. He is jazzy on the wrist too; not the kind of watch I normally gravitate to, but as with another of TAG Heuer's releases this year - the controversial Bamford Monaco - I caught myself loving the cut of his jib much more than I would have thought possible , and I think the association Besançon is pretty cool. The test procedures are more or less identical to those of the COSC; 16 days in Besançon and 15 in COSC (a chronometer is a chronometer) but why not a small terroir with your stopwatch, is not it?

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