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November 4th, 2026

Seven Takeaways from the 2026 TAG Heuer Collectors Summit

From Monday, October 19, 2026, through Wednesday, October 21, 2026, TAG Heuer hosted a group of 35 collectors at company headquarters at La Chaux-de-Fonds, for its 2026 Collectors Summit. After hosting gatherings of its collectors in 2013 and 2016, TAG Heuer had hosted its most recent Collectors’ Summits in November 2024 and October 2025. I

September 1st, 2026

Introducing the TAG Heuer Monza Flyback — Everything Looks Better in Black and White (and Red)

I was chatting with the writer about the usual topics – Why do I collect? What do I collect? How do I collect? – and then he asked me a different type of question. I had mentioned that approximately 90 percent of my watches are vintage chronographs, with half of them Heuers, and that the

Heuer’s Breguet-Style Chronographs of the 1930s

Last week, a reader asked about Heuer’s use of “Breguet-style” numerals and hands in the timepieces that the company produced in the 1930s. To explore the subject, I put together a group of seven timepieces, including three chronographs that Heuer made for Abercrombie & Fitch and Aerotel and three Heuer-branded pocket chronographs. Because it uses

February 11th, 2026

30 Collectors, 90 Watches and One Epic Table Shot (from the 2024 TAG Heuer Collectors Summit)

I sometimes enjoy task-repetitive projects. Give me a spreadsheet that lists 592 models of Heuer chronographs, tell me the 30 items of information that we want to present for each model, and some months (or years) later, I’ll have most of those 17,760 fields of data filled in. To add images of catalogs to OnTheDash,

January 20th, 2026

Arrivals in 2025; Advice for 2026 — Tell Your Friends that You Love Their Watches

It was a New Year’s tradition back in the days of the discussion forums. Collectors would publish detailed postings describing the watches they acquired during the preceding year, the near misses, the ones they had sold, their “Most Wanted” watches for the coming year, etc. For 2025, I’m going to take a simpler approach, describing

December 2nd, 2025

Introducing the TAG Heuer Carrera Chronograph x Fragment Limited Edition

In his book, How Banksy Saved Art History, Kelly Grovier presents 43 works by the street artist, Banksy, and for each of the Banksy works Grovier presents a “classic” work that the Banksy work references, re-interprets or reimagines. For example, we see Girl with Balloon (Banksy, 2002) paired with Joan Miro’s Dancer II (1925) and

November 27th, 2025

A Topographical Tour of the TAG Heuer “Glassbox” Carrera (Second Generation)

TAG Heuer introduced its “Glassbox” case for the Carrera in 2015 and produced 10 versions of the Carrera using this case, the last one coming in 2023. Here is our posting that provides an overview of all 10 first generation Glassbox Carreras — Retrospective — The “First Generation” Glassbox Carrera Chronographs (2015 to 2023) After

Hodinkee Magazine — A Medical Student and Her Rolex on Everest, 1988

It was probably around the year 2005 when our friend Mimi Zieman joined us for dinner and I noticed that she was wearing a Rolex GMT-Master II, not exactly standard equipment for a suburban Atlanta OB/GYN, especially one who didn’t seem to be particularly interested in name brands or luxury accessories. But there it was,

Introducing the Monaco Chronograph “Stopwatch” LE — TAG Heuer Captures the Best of Its Heritage

It’s an old question for those who collect vintage watches and many in the community are tired of even talking about it – “How should a modern brand use its heritage models to create new watches for today’s enthusiasts?” At one extreme, a brand can create new models that are almost one-to-one copies of the

April 29th, 2025

The Definitive Guide to Ayrton Senna’s Watches, a guest posting by Michael Young (@Mspeedster)

Photo Credits: Original photographs of watches by Michael Young and Jeff Stein. INTRODUCTION Ayrton Senna is considered to be one of the greatest Formula 1 drivers of all time. Even 30 years after his tragic passing, his memory burns brightly, reignited by the 2024 Netflix Senna series. TAG Heuer is also an icon in Formula

March 31st, 2025

Introducing the TAG Heuer Formula 1 Solargraph (38 mm) — Everyone Loves a Taxonomy, Right?

Taxonomy — the science of classifying and organizing living things (and other things) into groups based on shared characteristics and relationships. Wow . . . there it is. One of the things I enjoy most about this watch hobby. A good taxonomy helps us understand and appreciate our vintage watches. Autavia reference 1163 GMT —

February 26th, 2025

A New Old Solid Gold Carrera . . . a Play in Five Acts

Here’s a new watch arrival, an 18 karat gold Carrera, Reference 1158 S (third execution) from 1973. My acquisition of this chronograph involved many of the elements that I enjoy most about the watch collecting hobby — a favorite version of a favorite model, in superb (nearly-new) condition; some interesting provenance; an acquisition that involved

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