TAG Heuer’s famous square-form watch, as sported by both Steve McQueen and Breaking Bad’s Walter White, is a dyed-in-the-wool 1970s classic that’s recently been experiencing a phase of high-tech revisionism. That reaches a peak in the new Split-Seconds Chronograph.
The split-seconds—or rattrapante—is an intricate mechanism associated with top-tier classical horology (it’s a Patek Philippe specialty, for instance) in which the stopwatch seconds hand divides in two, to measure separate timing intervals (like laps) concurrently.
TAG Heuer’s version is anything but classical—rather, it borders on the brutalist: The case is in lightweight titanium, sandwiched between thick slabs of sapphire crystal that bring light streaming into the mechanism’s complexities, via a distinctively architectural, skeletonized dial format. Priced at $138,000, the watch is lavished with hand-finishing techniques, while customization options are also being offered.
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