TAG Heuer Vanquish
Ever seen a TAG Heuer Vanquish?
The Calibre 360 movement was first shown by TAG Heuer at the 2005 Basel show with this watch- The Calibre 360 Chronograph. This Calibre 360 Chronograph set the style template for the production versions of the Carrera Calibre 360 that were subsequently shown at Basel in 2006. The Calibre 360 movement is the is the first mechanical wrist chronograph to measure and display time to 1/100th of a second and features an in-house TAG Heuer chrono module mounted on a base ETA movement.
But before TAG Heuer released the 2006 version of the Carrera Calibre 360 they made a very special production run of the Calibre 360 Chronograph- called the TAG Heuer Vanquish
Not many people would ever have seen a Vanquish- in fact, there were only 12 watches made- now that’s a real Limited Edition. The Vanquish is basically identical to the concept 360featuring the same 41mm case, distinctive red top chrono pusher and “double”crown. Just as the Carrera Calibre 360 inspired today’s Carrera Day Date Calibre 16, its easy to see where the ideas came from first- the very rare TAG Heuer Vanquish.
TAG Heuer have a pretty good track record or putting their concept watches into production- The Monaco LS, The Monaco V4 and the Calibre 360 Chronograph watches have all made it into production, which is a great sign for the fantastic TAG Heuer Monaco 24 concept shown as Basel 2009…wonder what we’ll see at Basel 2010?
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The Vanquish has been produced end 2005 in a very limited edition in polished titanium of 11 pieces only all sold in Switzerland. The 00/10 was auctioned by Antiquorum as the 1st ever 1/100th of a second mechanical wrist chronograph to the benefit of Geneva Enamels and Watches Museum. It was purchased for 25.000 $. The other 10 (01/10…) were sold by 4 swiss retailers at a price of 15.000 $ each.
In 2006 we launched the Carrera Calibre 360 in a rose gold case in larger quantitities.
We’ll probably come back with the Vanquish 360 in 2011 or 2012 as it is one of the timepieces best epitomizing TAG Heuer in terms of utmost combination of technology and design.
Interesting- thanks for the additional information. I must confess that I hadn’t heard about the Vanquish before, although I thought I heard somewhere that the name “Vanquish” was considered for use of what has become the Grand Carrera.
Regards
David
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