I have always thought the Tag Heuer Carrera Heuer 02 represented one of the best bangs for your buck in the skeleton dial space. There are plenty of dial designs available, including the Heuer 02 - which is one of my personal favorites. CustomizationĪs discussed above, the watch can easily be set to different dials, with each dial variation color customizable on the watch or through the Tag Heuer mobile app. This can become necessary when your wrist expands during physical activity/sweating. The deployant mechanism does not clip-snap into any holes on the strap, which allows the wearer to make tiny adjustments. The rubber strap is smooth and breathable, and the watch is light enough to not be a nuisance during fitness activities. Indeed, I have 6.75 inch wrist and the watch doesn’t look out of place on my wrist (all the wristshots were taken on my wrist).Īdditionally, the watch is simply comfortable to wear. This allows for the wearer to get maximum screen size without the watch looking like a wall clock on their wrist. While the watch is large, Tag Heuer makes up for it by making the lugs and crown and pushers short. In my view a large watch is necessary for any smartwatch to be truly functional. The Connected is a large watch at 45mm in diameter and 13.5mm thick. The watch runs on the Google WearOS Android platform but Tag Heuer has their own bespoke app that allows further customization as well as their own apps and fitness tracking. The perforated rubber strap is perfect for strenuous fitness activities, and the watch comes on a high end deployant buckle. The watch looks and feels like Tag Heuer took one of their Swiss mechanical watch cases and reversed engineered their smartwatch to fit inside (I know that’s not what they did, but it’s a good thing it appears that way). The watch both looks and feels expensive, something you cannot say about most Android-based smartwatches. It has a heavy duty stainless steel case (though it also comes in titanium) with a PVD ceramic bezel. There are fun dials like the Super Mario dial, and more traditional digital style skins for ease of telling time. These skins offer a range of traditional Tag Heuer watch dials, including the Helios, Heuer 01, Porsche (yes Porsche!), and the Heuer 02 (who doesn’t want skeleton dial, even if it’s just a screen?). Not only does the Connected track your steps, workouts, deliver notifications, and everything else you would expect, it gives you some exclusive Tag Heuer dial skins. Secondly, there are quite a few fun little aspects to the Tag Heuer smartwatch for someone who wants a smartwatch and high end wristwatch all in one. It keeps me a little bit more in the moment when I am out to dinner or with friends and family. As someone who spends a lot of time staring at a phone (I am an Instagrammer) a smart watch gives me access to my messages and notifications without taking my phone out of my pocket. With that being said, there are significant advantages to wearing a smart watch. The biggest being that even with operating system updates, the tech will eventually become obsolete. If you are like me and are a mechanical watch collector, the first question I’m sure your wondering is why even bother buying a smartwatch? There are obvious downsides to spending a significant chunk of cash on any piece of technology. In reviewing the Connected I was interested in seeing whether a smartwatch could take away wrist time from the mechanical pieces that make up my collection. Watches of Switzerland is an authorized dealer of Tag Heuer, as well as many other brands, including Rolex and Patek Philippe. I was lucky enough to review a Tag Heuer Connected Smart Watch courtesy of Watches of Switzerland in Hudson Yards.
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