The TAG Heuer Aquaracer

Swiss watchmakers are known to make wild claims about their new creations. Nevertheless, TAG Heuer's announcement that the hands of its new Aquaracer Calibre S go counterclockwise caught our attention. Finally, we thought, a way to get back the two hours we wasted on The Island . Alas, the Aquaracer does not turn back time but rather counts it down. Inspired by the nail-biting ten-minute preamble to a competitive yacht race, wherein skippers count down

The TAG Heuer Aquaracer

Swiss watchmakers are known to make wild claims about their new creations. Nevertheless, TAG Heuer's announcement that the hands of its new Aquaracer Calibre S go counterclockwise caught our attention. Finally, we thought, a way to get back the two hours we wasted on The Island . Alas, the Aquaracer does not turn back time but rather counts it down. Inspired by the nail-biting ten-minute preamble to a competitive yacht race, wherein skippers count down from the ten-minute gun to zero, the Aquaracer's hands sweep counterclockwise around its face from the ten o'clock position, moving the space normally covered in an hour every minute. When it gets to zero (or twelve o'clock) the watch immediately reverses direction and shifts into traditional chronograph mode to function as a stopwatch. ...

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