TAG Heuer Has Dropped New Polylight-Powered F1s

No uncertainty looking to find immoderate breathing abstraction aft the hubbub of Watches and Wonders past week, TAG Heuer has dropped an update to its 2025 revamped collection of the brand's iconic plastic-cased 1980s watch, the “Formula 1.”

The 5 caller pieces are called the "pastel collection” by TAG, and each are built connected the aforesaid solar-powered Formula 1 Solargraph 38 mm that launched successful March past year. Two models diagnostic a sandblasted stainless alloy case, portion the remaining 3 person cases made from TAG’s proprietary bio-polamide plastic, Polylight.

It's these Polylight versions that, for WIRED, are the stars of the caller mini collection. Coming successful pastel blue, beige, and pink, and sporting case-matching rubber straps and bidirectional-rotating Polylight bezels, they notation classical F1 designs that made the enactment iconic successful the archetypal place.

The stainless alloy models person a 3-link sandblasted alloy bracelet and either a “pastel green” oregon “lavender blue” dial with matching Polylight bezels. The dials connected some watches besides spot 8 diamonds regenerate the circular hr markers. TAG says these models adhd “a interaction of refinement for those seeking sophistication,” but considering these “luxury” F1s volition retail astatine $2,800, arsenic opposed to the already punchy $1,950 afloat Polylight versions, our prime is astir decidedly the integrative pieces.

Not lone bash these blue, beige, and pinkish versions pleasingly hark backmost to vintage F1 designs—though present 38 mm successful size alternatively of the archetypal 35 mm—but also, conscionable similar each F1 Solargraphs, they travel equipped with screw-down crowns and casebacks, making for 100 meters of h2o absorption and ensuring these volition service good arsenic dive and sports watches. My recommendation? Go for the pink, it looks superb connected the wrist. The beige is simply a precise adjacent second.