http://www.calibre11.com/tag-heuer-silverstone/TAG Heuer celebrated the launch of the new Silverstone re-edition by holding a launch event last night at the Mclaren Technical Centre outside of London. The event also marked the 25th anniversary of the relationship between Mclaren and TAG Heuer, which was a good excuse to get Lewis Hamilton into Alain Prost’s 1986 Mclaren-TAG F1 car.
The relationship has been a great one for TAG Heuer to reinforce the links that it had with many of the great F1 drivers of the 1970s- just take a look at the roll-call of world champion drivers that have been part of McLaren over that 25 year period- Prost, Lauda, Senna, Hakkinen and Hamilton all winning world championships at McLaren.
However, as this is a watch blog, the real star of the show isn’t the F1 car or the world champion- its the new Heuer Silverstone re-edition, which TAG Heuer launched last night. The key points on the new watch are:
◦Limited Edition of 3000 watches- 1500 in blue and 1500 in metallic brown
◦Price: USD6500 (est)
◦Alligator strap- no bracelet
◦Calibre 11 movement (same as the movement in the 40th anniversary Monaco)
◦Heuer branded crown and dial
