Tag Heuer Buffs - please identify this watch

[anonymous-user]

Hello Tag taggers, can one of you please apply your magic watch nerd skills and ID this 1990s Tag Professional chronograph. My then wife gave it to me in 1997. Its red pointed stopwatch minute hand helped me avoid getting lost many times when I used to fly around in very small aeroplanes using deduced reckoning (no GPS). I have for many years been replacing the watch's leather straps at great expense with new Tag leather ones every time that they wear out. The last one died the death after being worn in the sea a lot over the last two years while I was working overseas. I now want to buy a Tag steel bracelet for the watch and would like to know which model of watch this is. There are no Tag dealers near me whom I can ask.

All info gratefully received.

PS: the watch needs some work, as the crown is not going in all the way, and the stop hands are not parking correctly, but that can wait.

[DanL]

TAG’s 1997 catalogue:

https://www.calibre11.com/catalogues/tag-heuer-ann...

I have to say I don’t know the model and haven’t looked through the catalogs enough to be able to see which it is. The same site may have catalogues from other years...

ETA: looks like it’s a 6000 series chronograph from the catalog.

[Barchettaman]

On a slight tangent: Steve at Steveo Straps will be able to reproduce the original Tag Heuer leather strap if you send him the battered old one.

He will reuse the Tag Heuer hardware, tang and buckle etc, do an amazing job and cost considerably less.

Best of luck getting it sorted out. My wife gets her 1994 Tag SL back this week from the watchmakers (with its Stevo strap!)

[anonymous-user]

Many thanks both.

[anonymous-user]

Page 22, bottom right, thanks!

[bristolbaron]

6000 series, the bracelets were incredibly expensive at the time. Now I’d think you’d probably be better off finding a used water damaged watch and swapping the bracelet onto yours.

[anonymous-user]

Not a bad idea, thank you, but I have just found the bracelet, new in bag, for a good price on eBay from a UK seller.

[glazbagun]

As said, a Tag 6000 series. This was their flagship at the time and the bracelets were a lot of work for the time as they contained so many pieces.

[GC8]

I can recommend a repairer.

[anonymous-user]

Thanks, please do.

[anonymous-user]

I've got a 'Monza' and think the straps are alligator or similar. Cost about £220 each time and I've had to replace it 3 times. Then the face managed to somehow detach itself from the body and it rotates freely within the watch. Incidentally my Casio never gives such problems and cost about 60 times less. Also tells time.

Edited by anonymous-user on Saturday 24th October 06:02

[GC8]

Breadvan72 said:

Thanks, please do.

Emailed.

[benny.c]

For your wonky chrono hands try following the instructions in this video - skip to about 5mins to avoid the waffle. Most quartz chronos can have their hands reset in this way or a variation of it.

https://youtu.be/CblEQkveZ1A

[anonymous-user]

Many thanks!

[anonymous-user]

Thanks again for help above. I have ended up going for a leather strap again.

[anonymous-user]

benny.c said:

For your wonky chrono hands try following the instructions in this video - skip to about 5mins to avoid the waffle. Most quartz chronos can have their hands reset in this way or a variation of it.

https://youtu.be/CblEQkveZ1A

This did not work on my Tag, but it did work on the lovely 2000 Longines that I bought my nephew for his twentieth birthday, thanks.

Edited by anonymous-user on Sunday 13th December 12:01

[anonymous-user]

This worked for the Tag -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BltPr0DMH9c

[benny.c]