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Tag Heuer Monaco Watch Re-thought By Parsons School Of Design
A few months ago Tag Heuer began an interesting project with the Parsons New School For Design (worked with the New York City campus). The project was called “The Art of Watchmaking.” Silly, because the idea was to design watches, not really make movements. Anyhow. The plan was to have design students re-imagine the iconic Tag heuer Monaco. Not only would this project be fun and come with good media, but it could potentially assist Tag Heuer in future design directions its takes the classic model. While I don’t know the specific rules the students had, it looks as though their own requirement was to maintain the Monaco case shape.Student groups were to compete against one another, with each group’s result being a few designs. Tag Heuer would reserve the right to actually produce the watches. Produce them if they liked the watches of course. The pictured three watches were the winning models. These were the best. Will Tag Heuer make them? Does Tag Heuer want to m
I'm Finally Saying Something About Deplorable Watch Strap Deployant Clasps
Am I the only watch enthusiast who often finds himself complaining about deplorable deployants? As someone who has personally worn countless thousands of watches, I tend to notice mistakes or problems shared by a lot of different products across different brands. The watch brand mistake I am talking about today relates to choices made in regard to the hardware used to close a watch strap. I’m irritated that a large number of watches (with straps) choose to pair those straps with a form of deployant clasp that is not only often ugly or bulky, but that actually make watches less comfortable to wear, instead of more comfortable.One little problem is that these “deployant buckles” don’t have a standard term used to refer to them. Sometimes they are called “strap deployants,” or “deployant clasps,” or “butterfly clasps” (depending on their shape). What I am referring to are folding clasps fitted to the ends of watch straps that giv