TAG Heuer Formula 1 watches

The TAG Heuer Formula 1 is the brand's sports watch line: quartz three-hands, alarms, big dates and chronographs, with automatic Calibre 16 chronographs alongside. It was the first entirely new collection after Techniques d'Avant Garde took a majority stake in Heuer in 1985 and formed TAG Heuer. The first Formula 1 watches, in 1986, paired quartz movements with bright colours and materials such as rubber and resin, and the first Formula 1 Chronograph followed before the end of the decade. Ayrton Senna wore them, and the line found its following in the mid-1990s. After a pause between 2000 and 2004 it returned, and in 2015 it took on styling from the Autavia.

The core of the range is the Quartz three-hand, from 32 to 43 mm, with gem-set bezels common on the smaller sizes, and the Chronograph Quartz with a tachymeter bezel. The Big Date 44 and the Alarm models, usually with a 12-hour bezel, sit beside them. Others carry a TAG Heuer calibre in the name: Calibre 5, Calibre 6, the Calibre 7 GMT with a 24-hour bezel, Calibre S and the 44 mm Calibre 16 automatic chronograph. The part of the reference after the dot denotes the bracelet or strap: WAH1010.BA0854 is the Big Date 44 on its steel bracelet, WAH1010.BT0717 the same watch on rubber.

Max Verstappen, then driving for Red Bull Racing, had a quartz chronograph each year from 2016 to 2018: the 2016 piece, with Dutch-orange details, limited to 500; the 2017 No.33, with red accents from his helmet, to 533; and the 2018 to 1,300. In 2019 a Calibre 16 automatic followed in a run of 333, for his race number 33. The 2020 Senna Special Edition came as a 44 mm automatic and a 43 mm quartz; the quartz (CAZ101AF) wears the S-shaped steel bracelet Senna favoured. Other runs include the Fangio (900 pieces), McLaren (5,000), CR7 Cristiano Ronaldo (3,000) and Alec Monopoly (200), alongside Red Bull Racing, Indy 500, Gulf, Aston Martin, Manchester United, Bundesliga and David Guetta editions.