Only a few years ago, the concept of a haute horlogerie (a French term that in essence means “high-end watchmaking”) TAG Heuer watch was a foreign one. It was only under the leadership of Jean-Christophe Babin in the mid-2000s that the company began to reactivate watchmaking skills that had long been dormant. Starting with the Monaco V4, TAG Heuer has set… Read More
POSTED 14 Dec 2013
Mikrogirder

The TAG Heuer Mikrogirder represents the ultimate “mikro” platform, with chronograph precision to 5/ 10,000th of a second. Initially presented as the Mikrogirder 2000 Concept Watch in January 2012, the improved Mikrogirder 10000 followed a few months later at the Basel show.
The Mikrogirder was produced in limited numbers by the TAG Heuer haute horlogerie team.
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