Cheapest place to buy TAG HEUER watches

Standard Toaster

Looking to get a watch for Christmas and have my eye on something like this:




Or something very similar. (suggestions welcome)
Where would you suggest I buy one from?

Been reading the forum the last while, I think I've caught the watch bug! :eek::D

Thanks in advance

Bullseye1

Are you planning on traveling or do you want best place in Ireland or web to buy?

Standard Toaster

No travel so either ireland or web....preferably web.

Marcusm

THe precise watch you're looking at is on this site at £660, about 1/6th off retail What price are you looking to pay? Probably see this as a ceiling.

You know it's a quartz?

http://swisswatchesdirect.co.uk/swisswatches/tag_heuer_special_edition_watches_formula_1_gulf_ltd_edt.html

bogmanfan

Best advice I could give is find the cheapest price you can online, then either phone or call into jewellers here. Explain that you intend to buy the watch online for that price and invite thm to match it. You could get lucky

Standard Toaster

Thanks for the feedback fellas. I was looking at it in the flesh yesterday in Weirs on Grafton Street, looking for a smige over 1000 for it. Will have a hunt around online and see how I fair and post back.

Mitch Buchannon

Standard Toaster wrote: »

Thanks for the feedback fellas. I was looking at it in the flesh yesterday in Weirs on Grafton Street, looking for a smige over 1000 for it. Will have a hunt around online and see how I fair and post back.

Fields jewelers in Swords have it for €905.00. Spotted it today. It's a nice looking watch.

Bullseye1

£660 seems like a great price then.

taato

Howdy - first time poster so not sure of my footing yet. I got that exact watch for birthday pressie for Hubby. I rang around and found it cheapest in Enniskillen. List price for Authorised Tag dealers is £795 but shop there regularly has 20% off sales leaving it at £636 - I thought it was a great price. I believe Tag only honour warranties from authorised dealers not from websites so be careful. I've no connection to shop in Enniskillen - went there cos best value.

Standard Toaster

Thanks for that taato, very helpful.
Is that Mercer TA in Enniskillen? £636 is a great price.

Oh and welcome to the forum too!

taato

Thanks Standard - always reading the forums but never posted. Yes it is Mercers - they're very helpful. Maybe give them a buzz and see if they have a sale on or if one is coming up soon. I bought the watch two days after it came into the shop and was surprised that it was included in the sale seeing as it was "just out". Happy days. Someone told me they regularly have discounts but don't advertise this. Nice staff too and they take euro but probably cheaper to pay by card as better exchange rates. Anyway hubby was chuffed with the watch.

SeanElec1

Tag is over-rated. The watch is pretty by basically a swatch in a steel case.

Standard Toaster

SeanElec1 wrote: »

Tag is over-rated. The watch is pretty by basically a swatch in a steel case.

Thanks SeanElec1, why do you feel this way towards Tags?
Any bad experiences?

Anyone else in the same boat?? After all it isn't Casio.

Bullseye1

I have a couple of Tags. Some designs don't age all that well but that could be said about alot of watches. The build quality is very good so don't worry in that regard. Some of the newer models are reminiscent of their Heuer days which is a good thing.

SeanElec1

I have a basic quartz TAG myself & it functions reasonably well but I have had 2 issues, (i) a slight misallignment of the minute hand to lag slightly behind where it should indicate & (ii) Date number indexing not functioing correctly on the 2nd drawout position of the screw down winder. The watch has gone for servicing 3 times. Twice the fault with the date was not even noticed & the 3rd time they wanted 400 € to fix. I'm not impressed. One of my colleagues has had problems with a TAG while still in warranty & the customer service was poor.

bogmanfan

Tags suffer terribly at the hands of watch snobs for some reason. These are the same people who think nothing of buying a Panerai which is made in Switzerland and has little or nothing to do with the Florentine company who supplied the Italian navy for decades, and also houses a $20 movement :rolleyes:
Personally I really like the look of most current Tags, and I think the one you've picked is a real looker. Their 80s and early 90s models have aged badly, but with the classic Gulf colours, I reckon that one will still look great in 20 years time.

scwazrh

Would have to agree about issues with tag .

I bought a tag in 2006 and have sent it back to the factory three times . My main complaint was the colouring on the bezel coming off .when I got it back the first time it actually looked like they had touched it up with nail polish it was that bad, so it went back and the second time they replaced the bezel.

After that I had to send it back again for battery replacement as the jewellers said they won't replace batteries in store for tags.

When I bought the tag , I bought a Tissot for my girlfriend and she has never had any problems with it , I also have numerous grey market eBay seiko watches and all are trouble free.

My advice to anyone looking for a tag Heuer is buy a Raymond Weil instead.

Eoin

bogmanfan wrote: »

Tags suffer terribly at the hands of watch snobs for some reason.

I'm not a watch snob at all. I know nothing about watches, and can't afford to be a snob either - my most expensive watch is probably cheaper than some members' "beaters".

But for some reason, there's something about Tag that turn me off them - despite buying one on impulse on eBay (and flogging it on soon after). I can't quite put my finger on it though.

I can't comment on the overall finish / quality of the moment etc, but the lower end models just seem quite humdrum for the money - especially when you look at the alternatives in this thread you could get for the same budget, or less.

Maybe that is snobbery I suppose.

Bullseye1

I'm a fan of Tag but alot of their models do not age well. Of course they have also designed some classics. A bit like Breitling in many respects.

Wibbs

I love Heuer, I'm in two minds when it comes to the TAG Heuer lines.

Deep Thought

SeanElec1 wrote: »

Tag is over-rated. The watch is pretty by basically a swatch in a steel case.

Looking at your other posts ..you seem to be having a lot of bad luck lately

Cyrus

bogmanfan wrote: »

Tags suffer terribly at the hands of watch snobs for some reason. These are the same people who think nothing of buying a Panerai which is made in Switzerland and has little or nothing to do with the Florentine company who supplied the Italian navy for decades, and also houses a $20 movement :rolleyes:
Personally I really like the look of most current Tags, and I think the one you've picked is a real looker. Their 80s and early 90s models have aged badly, but with the classic Gulf colours, I reckon that one will still look great in 20 years time.

+1 really like the gulf livery

and while a gulf monaco is really what id like, i might end up plumping for the f1 myself too

Marcusm

bogmanfan wrote: »

Tags suffer terribly at the hands of watch snobs for some reason. These are the same people who think nothing of buying a Panerai which is made in Switzerland and has little or nothing to do with the Florentine company who supplied the Italian navy for decades, and also houses a $20 movement :rolleyes:
Personally I really like the look of most current Tags, and I think the one you've picked is a real looker. Their 80s and early 90s models have aged badly, but with the classic Gulf colours, I reckon that one will still look great in 20 years time.

Some of us are even worse in that we insist on including the Heuer part of the name which is the part with the watchmaking heritage. TAG (Techniques d'Avant Garde) is a company set up by the Ojjeh family whose principal interest was int he McLAren F1 team. It only got involved with Heuer in 1985 and subsequently sold out to LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy). Personally I cannot see why they have kept TAG as part of the name.

There was a great auction of Heuer watches at Bonhams in London last year; mostly new old stock (NOS) pieces collected by a guy called Hasslinger. THe chrono movements they devised were relatively ground breaking.