Excuse me for not closely inspecting the pic like you do msb. I wonder what you do when someone posts a pic of a chick.
lol, not that hard hexx. that'd be like seeing a new car and asking who makes it before looking at the logo... unless it was debadged.. but that watch is not.
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get it. i have an older tag sel and i love it. definetly go for the automatic. i just recently bought an omega seamaster automatic and its great. the second hand will roll instead of tick and you will never need to replace the battery, which can get sort of expensive with swiss watches if you send them back to the manufacturer. if you wear them often enough they will hold good time, its just when you dont wear it for more than 2 days that they stop moving.
get it. i have an older tag sel and i love it. definetly go for the automatic. i just recently bought an omega seamaster automatic and its great. the second hand will roll instead of tick and you will never need to replace the battery, which can get sort of expensive with swiss watches if you send them back to the manufacturer. if you wear them often enough they will hold good time, its just when you dont wear it for more than 2 days that they stop moving.
congrats on the seamaster...i have the speedmaster chrono with day date...it's an arm and a leg to have it serviced though.
Ahem, as the self professed wrist watch fanatic let me chime in here.
1. Automatics will loose time minutely over a long period of time. It's more like 0.00001 per month, if that. But superdds is correct, a quartz is a more accurate time piece and since it has less pieces in construction and movement it will keep better time and need less service. On a side note, if this will be a your daily wear watch I recommend a quartz. Two reasons for that, 1.) It'll get damaged fairly quickly no matter what you try so it might be a better idea to get something a bit cheaper, 2.) As a daily wear time piece the watch will tend to get banged up more than say a special occasion piece, in which case a quartz with it's simpler construction and less moving pieces will withstand the test of time better. I personally wear an Omega Seamaster quartz as my daily wear and it's stood the test of time even though it gets abused.
2. The Carrera is an OK, piece but I wouldn't hold it against a Tier 1 or 2 piece. It's much more of a Tier 3 piece. You can find it in the downtown Jewerly district here in LA for about $1200 to $1400. One of the reasons for it's lower cost is that the Carrera is not a Chronometer. A chronometer is a time piece that has the ability to keep two times at once and has been certified to keep multiple accurate times at once. Example, keep normal time and be a stopwatch. Don't get chronograph mixed up with chronometer. They are two different things.
3. I assume that you like the round bezel look, if you do take a look at the Omegas. Omegas are tier 2 and are much better time pieces, but hey it depends on your taste.
If any of you are in the market for a watch pass it by me, I'm sure I could give you some advice. Good luck on your choice.
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Most definitely! Omega is a solid tier 2++ company and although Tag has been really improving it's quality of late, I have equity stake in Tag, it's still not quite up there with Omega.
Here are a few things all people in the market for a time piece should know...
1. All quartz watches "tick"
2. All automatics "sweep". Depending on the refinement of the manufacturer the "sweep" will be smoother or less smoother.
3. Chronographs will have some form of stop watch feature.
4. Chronometers are certified time pieces that can keep multiple times.
Now to the tiers I've been talking about. Some of this will surprise a lot of you...
To qualify for tier 1 status a manufacturer "must" manufacture/produce a 100% all the parts/pieces that go into the time piece "and" must assemble the entire article "in house". Surprise, surprise but Rolex is not a tier 1 company. It hasn't been so for a few decades. They went mass production to make for $$$. They used to be a tier 1 company, but then they produced 75% less time pieces for sale. Tier 2 is similar but are allowed a small percentage (say 10%) of their parts to be outsourced. This is extremely important as 0.00001 g of weight differential in a part of a time piece can render it useless and inaccurate. I'm sure you're now seeing the big picture. Then down the line to tier 3 and so on and so forth. Anything not ranked in the first 3 tiers are junk. Sorry, but they are in terms of how a watch connoisseur would see it. There are many, I'm sure, that keep great time but there's a difference. Analogous to say a Civic and G35 debate?
A funny story, when I was literally addicted to collecting watches the most expensive piece I had was a genuine Breitling. Which I believe I paid a handsome $25K for (I know, I know the couseling helped ) I was at a party and a few people were discussing time pieces and there was this one tool who was showing off his fine Rolex. He was telling everyone that he had paid $20K for it, but I had my doubts. Once I was able to see it close hand, I put him in his place. It probably cost him $5k or $6k if he was dumb enough to get ripped off that bad. The moral of the story? Never judge a time piece by the flash of fake diamonds or fake gold leaf paint.
I used to go to watch shows before and the most expensive piece I've seen to date is a Piaget which cost $250K and a GP (sorry I can't spell French too well but it's called Gerrard Peregot) that cost $278K. Kid's don't fall into the addictive world of wrist watches. Really, you'll loose your shorts.
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look at the logo, dummy
(or get a better monitor)
Actually it's a Tag Heuer.
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you'll probably lose a minute accuracy a month but that's normal.
oops...i meant to say a few seconds...not a minute.
Actually super you are more correct with a minute a month, maybe even a little more than that.
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Originally Posted by Zoomzoomers...........2. The Carrera is an OK, piece but I wouldn't hold it against a Tier 1 or 2 piece. It's much more of a Tier 3 piece...............Omegas are tier 2 and are much better time pieces, but hey it depends on your taste.
I would agree that the Tag's are more of a Tier 2/3 piece. Omega's a Tier 2, yes. I would say that some Omega models like Tag models are better than others. However some of the Omega's I would say are of inferior quality to some of the higher end Tag's (more to do with the asthetics than the actual interior workings).
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.........4. Chronometers are certified time pieces that can keep multiple times.
Chronometers are certified time pieces, but they don't necessarily have to keep multiple times.
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) I was at a party and a few people were discussing time pieces and there was this one tool who was showing off his fine Rolex. He was telling everyone that he had paid $20K for it, but I had my doubts. Once I was able to see it close hand, I put him in his place. It probably cost him $5k or $6k if he was dumb enough to get ripped off that bad. The moral of the story? Never judge a time piece by the flash of fake diamonds or fake gold leaf paint. 
