Lee's Watch Thread for MM'ers of Impeccable Taste

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About to nerd out here for a bit!

So the Tag showed up today and I'm overall really impressed! Was exactly as described and in better shape than I expected. Crystal is flawless, bezel is in great shape and the bracelet is surprisingly too. This watch is so LIGHT! It no joke feels like titanium even though it's SS. Could be partly because it's smaller (42mm including the crown, 37mm bezel), it's a quartz so it's thinner, and the links could also be hollow. It also could be because I was wearing my new Deep Blue around all day which is a fortress on your wrist :lol: It's a calculated risk when you buy used or new from an online source but all you can do is trust their past feedback threads and hope for the best. I am pleased so far. Some pics after the unboxing:


(just a small bit of dust near the 30 mark)


I did a little bit of research on the piece itself after it arrived, which shame on me I usually do before I buy something. But I was out with family exploring a little nearby small town and negotiating at the same time. I knew enough about it to be dangerous and at that price it was worth the risk.

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The watch is the Tag 2000 Series, which is actually the predecessor to the Aquaracer. It appears mine is a Gen 3, which would put it somewhere between 1995 and early 2000s. I didn't realize it was that old! Very cool. The 2000 series apparently was hugely important because its popularity helped keep Tag afloat in the 80's and 90's and ultimately evolved into some of their most popular dive watch series. Swiss quartz, sapphire glass, distinctive "Mercedes" hour hand and they used Superluminova lume which is great stuff! Here's a bonus shot with it "charged up", next to my DB that doesn't need to be charged~



The only glaring flaw I could notice so far is that the seconds hand is pretty far off from the seconds marker each time it moves. It lands somewhere in between This is pretty common actually even on brand new watches; my Tissot is slightly off, maybe it's a Swiss quartz thing. I am setting up an appointment with a respected local watchmaker to have him address this if he can and give it a full service / battery change / pressure test since I don't know the service history. He can also restore / refinish cases and bands and I am debating whether to do it or not since this thing could get into "vintage" territory in a few years; vintage collectors prefer the patina and scratches it seems. I do need his help to have some links removed unfortunately, I don't have the right size screwdriver for these tiny link screws in my jewelers kit.

Anyway long boring read unless you want to nerd out with me, but this was unwittingly my first foray into what could become vintage watch territory (if you set aside the 1920's railroad grade pocket watch I bought a while back). With vintage becoming hotter and hotter, my slacking on research may actually pay off when I go to trade / sell this thing! Time will tell :thumbup: