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There are brands and items that have become from *** product providers, or products, famous cultural icons. Just like Mercedes Benz is synonymous to status achievement and the best deal you can get on a car, so is Tag Heuer an icon of watch manufacturing and also the best deal you can get on a watch. Tag Heuer's top position amongst other watch manufacturing brands has nothing to do with luck or chance, but it has everything to do with the passion, talent and effort of its designers who have always been interested in developing innovative mechanisms and impressive designs that would take this brand on the peaks of its success.TAG Heuer creates timepieces by following the highest standards regarding quality and technical performance, so you can be sure that each new model released by this brand could be considered a collectible of the TAG Heuer brand, or simply a masterpiece of Haute Horlogerie. Ever since 1860, TAG Heuer has been regarded as a promising brand of watch *** that through its pioneering techniques and innovative designs has managed to gain a good reputation in an over-competitive industry. This year, Tag Heuer has associated its name with one of the best selling car manufacturers in the world, Mercedes, and has manufactured a timepiece inspired by the SLR Mercedes Benz car, called Tag Heuer Men's SLR Mercedes Benz Automatic Chronograph Watch. The new Tag Heuer Men's SLR Mercedes Benz Automatic Chronograph Watch approaches a black design completed by white detailing. The stainless steel case of the watch measures some generous 46 mm in diameter, assuring the best legibility for the dial. The dial of this extremely appealing timepiece is all black and it features two sub-dials for the chronograph's functions, Arabic numerals for the minutes and also a date window that provides the date, showing the previous and the future days as well. The bezel surrounding the case is inscribed with a tachymeter scale and also a SLR specification. The two sub-dials provide the measurement for the 60 seconds and 30 minutes counters, functions which are available due to the mechanism equipping the new Tag Heuer Men's SLR Mercedes Benz Automatic Chronograph Watch. We're talking here about a Swiss-made automatic chronograph self-winding movement that, apart from the already mentioned functions (chronograph, standard functions of hour, minute and second, date function), it can also provide 100 meters water resistance. The new Tag Heuer Men's SLR Mercedes Benz Automatic Chronograph Watch comes accompanied by a black rubber strap and it doesn't come cheap at all, being estimated at $3,995.

This year marks the 200th anniversary of the design of the first wrist-worn watch, ordered from Breguet by Caroline Murat, Queen of Naples. The anniversary offers Breguet the opportunity to add the first Grande Complication design to the Reine de Naples collection for ladies only: automatic strike.This elaborate "complication" marks the hours automatically every hour on the hour with two strikes, repeated three times, a charming and discreet way of signalling the passage of time. A pushpiece opposite 2 o'clock allows the wearer to deactivate this function. The automatic strike is featured on a new egg-shaped movement from the Breguet workshops, developed specifically for women's watches. It combines the sophistication of automatic strike with the subtle beauty of a design entirely engraved and decorated by hand. Along with the usual technical considerations, its makers factored in their aesthetic ambitions in addition to the results of fundamental research by Breguet technical specialists on the acoustics of watches featuring striking and repeater mechanisms.The shape of the new movement's bridges and oscillating weight as well as the details of its decorative work come together to form the image of a dove in flight, visible on the underside of the watch through a clear sapphire back plate. Its white gold case sets off the watch's white mother-of-pearl dial, framed by a bezel entirely set with diamonds. Separated by a diamond that signals the start of the strike, the hammers are visible on the upper part of the dial, at eleven and at one o'clock.A true masterpiece of Haute Horlogerie, the Reine de Naples Sonnerie design embodies to perfection Nicolas G. Hayek's remark about Breguet: "Breguet is the perfect meeting of beauty and advanced technology."