Little question trying to discover some respiration house after the hubbub of Watches and Wonders final week, TAG Heuer has dropped an replace to its 2025 revamped collection of the model’s iconic plastic-cased Nineteen Eighties watch, the “System 1.”
The 5 new items are known as the “pastel collection” by TAG, and all are constructed on the identical solar-powered System 1 Solargraph 38 mm that launched in March final 12 months. Two fashions characteristic a sandblasted stainless-steel case, whereas the remaining three have circumstances comprised of TAG’s proprietary bio-polamide plastic, Polylight.
It is these Polylight variations that, for WIRED, are the celebs of the brand new mini assortment. Coming in pastel blue, beige, and pink, and sporting case-matching rubber straps and bidirectional-rotating Polylight bezels, they reference traditional F1 designs that made the road iconic within the first place.
The stainless-steel fashions have a 3-link sandblasted metal bracelet and both a “pastel inexperienced” or “lavender blue” dial with matching Polylight bezels. The dials on each watches additionally see eight diamonds exchange the round hour markers. TAG says these fashions add “a contact of refinement for these looking for sophistication,” however contemplating these “luxurious” F1s will retail at $2,800, versus the already punchy $1,950 full Polylight variations, our choose is most undoubtedly the plastic items.
Not solely do these blue, beige, and pink variations pleasingly hark again to classic F1 designs—although now 38 mm in measurement as an alternative of the unique 35 mm—but in addition, similar to all F1 Solargraphs, they arrive geared up with screw-down crowns and casebacks, making for 100 meters of water resistance and making certain these will serve properly as dive and sports activities watches. My advice? Go for the pink, it appears very good on the wrist. The beige is a really shut second.
