The Cabestan is a collaboration between two of horology's bad boys, Vianney Halter and Jean-François Ruchonnet's DMC Group (who also designed the Heuer Monaco V4). Inspired by old Curta calculators, this watchmaking marvel has a vertical tourbillon and an unusual fusée-and-chain movement. Time is shown on the barrels; no dial and no hands. You wind the watch by attaching a "wrench" to the two top …
This new concept TAG Heuer, recently introduced at Baselworld 2006, stands out for a couple of reasons—or a thousand. With dials that track 1/10th, 1/100th, and 1/1000th of a second simultaneously, the Monaco Calibre 360 LS (LS stands for Linear second) lends new meaning to Swiss precision and continues TAG Heuer's tradition of innovation. The nearly 150-year old company is the only watchmaker in the …
This year, with the introduction of the new Monaco Sixty Nine , TAG Heuer has created a concept watch that features two key surprises. The first originality lies in the fact that, contrary to the customary chronograph model, this Monaco comes in a “straightforward” watch version. The other innovation relates to the extraordinary technical feat that made it possible to integrate the classic Monaco dial …
