The TAG Heuer Heuer-02T Tourbillon is one of the worst kept secrets of the watch industry this year. It limited to 250 pieces.

In case you haven’t been keeping up with the buzz, the Heuer-02T is a big deal for several reasons. Firstly, it adds a flying tourbillon to the hugely popular Heuer-01, with the same 45mm case as last year’s release. That’s newsworthy in and of itself – but wait, there’s more. The Heuer-02T movement is actually a rebranded version of the infamous on-again off-again CH80 calibre, modified to include the flying tourbillon at six. TAG Heuer are releasing two versions of the Heuer-02T, a regular production piece, and a Black Phantom version with titanium carbide coating and grey Super Luminova, Already the Heuer-02T is shaping up to be an important watch, a high-end expression of TAG Heuer’s new creative direction, powered by the brand’s most significant in-house movement of recent years. There’s been a lot of scepticism from the watch-loving community surrounding this, as the usual starting price for a Swiss tourbillon is around the 50,000 CHF mark, and many have asserted that the movement components must have been sourced from Asia. Reframing the tourbillon is a very savvy move; it makes good business sense to release an accessible tourbillon in the current precarious luxury market. But more importantly the Heuer-02 continues to bolster TAG’s persona as an aggressively avant-garde game changer.

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