Received this watch about a week ago from InTime and I'm loving just about everything about it.
Dial is beautifully orchestrated with the three subdials at 12 9 and 6, with vertical lining over the open areas to give it a nice, classy finish. The Tag logo is applied and the date wheel is aligned very well. Only issue with the dial is that it seems the hour markers at 12 and 6 are quite often misaligned and mine is no different. I noticed it in photos on TD sites selling the watch and in the QC. I denied one watch which had its 12 marker a little too slanted (and the 6 a bit too) and settled for this one which has a bit of a slant on the 12 but not as bad, and the 6 is pretty decently aligned as well. All the other markers look great.
When it comes to telling time, I will say something is strange at least with my specific watch in that the minute hand always falls behind the seconds, but it stays consistent either way. By that, I mean when the seconds subdial reaches 60, the minute hand hasn't quite fully reached the minute that it should be at (but instead like 75% through the previous minute), but it doesn't get progressively worse at all. And for the record, I'm setting the minute hand exactly at the minute marker of the current time with the second subdial at 60 every time. I wonder if I set the minute hand a bit ahead of the marker it might correct the issue. But either way, like I said, it doesn't get worse at all and just stays the same (gets to the correct minute by around 20 seconds or so) so it's not a big issue. As for the watch keeping time, I believe it gains 10-15 seconds per day but I have yet to precisely record that (I received 2 other great watches with this one so I haven't analyzed each completely yet).
As for lume, only the hour and minute hands have lume application. Nothing else on the dial has any lume at all as there are shiny metallic hour markers and painted white marks for the chrono ticks. The lume on the hands is all right. Not superlume, but just fine. It showed up extremely poorly on camera so don't judge it by this photo, but here's what it looks like with just the two hands lumed.
Chrono pushers require quite a good heavy push to get going, or at least the first time you press the top pusher after having not used it for a while. But after that it's a bit smoother but still requires a good click which is nice as to not be prone to accidental starts. All chrono dials and functions work and the second hand immediately resets to 12 with the bottom pusher. This is my first chrono so it is a bit exciting but I also don't want to go to crazy with it since A7750's are known to be problematic, but it's nice to use the chrono function in moderation.
I saw in a review of this watch on RWG that there's a nut on the inner side of the crown that prevents the crown from being screwed all the way in and this is still true on mine. It's really a minor issue though and you can only notice it of you look at that area on an angle to see the gap. From atop everything looks fine.
Bracelet is quite interesting with its "link" design whereby each link comes apart in two and you sort of build the bracelet a bit like lego or K'nex or something. It's rather simple to size as you just need a pin removal tool to separate the clasp from the links and then just a small flathead screwdriver to unscrew the 2nd half-link of each link (first one comes loose immediately). Overall a pretty solid design and replicated very well. Feels nice on the wrist. I should note that in that same review I mentioned from RWG, it was mentioned that the clasp didn't line up well and had a bit of a gap between the two sides, but I can say that mine does not have this issue and the alignment is very good.
I have to say it feels like a very big watch. Almost feels as big as my 45mm CrPO even though this is just 42mm. It must be because the dial itself is very large and has a very thin (non-moving) bezel to maximize the open space of the watch face. You can see it here compared to my other recent additions -- a 42mm Black Bay and a 40mm Yachtmaster. And then also next to my 45mm CrPO.
Overall it's just a great rep of a great watch and I cannot highly recommend it enough. Tbqh I think it's the best looking Tag on the market and you really can't go wrong with this one.
Dial is beautifully orchestrated with the three subdials at 12 9 and 6, with vertical lining over the open areas to give it a nice, classy finish. The Tag logo is applied and the date wheel is aligned very well. Only issue with the dial is that it seems the hour markers at 12 and 6 are quite often misaligned and mine is no different. I noticed it in photos on TD sites selling the watch and in the QC. I denied one watch which had its 12 marker a little too slanted (and the 6 a bit too) and settled for this one which has a bit of a slant on the 12 but not as bad, and the 6 is pretty decently aligned as well. All the other markers look great.
When it comes to telling time, I will say something is strange at least with my specific watch in that the minute hand always falls behind the seconds, but it stays consistent either way. By that, I mean when the seconds subdial reaches 60, the minute hand hasn't quite fully reached the minute that it should be at (but instead like 75% through the previous minute), but it doesn't get progressively worse at all. And for the record, I'm setting the minute hand exactly at the minute marker of the current time with the second subdial at 60 every time. I wonder if I set the minute hand a bit ahead of the marker it might correct the issue. But either way, like I said, it doesn't get worse at all and just stays the same (gets to the correct minute by around 20 seconds or so) so it's not a big issue. As for the watch keeping time, I believe it gains 10-15 seconds per day but I have yet to precisely record that (I received 2 other great watches with this one so I haven't analyzed each completely yet).
As for lume, only the hour and minute hands have lume application. Nothing else on the dial has any lume at all as there are shiny metallic hour markers and painted white marks for the chrono ticks. The lume on the hands is all right. Not superlume, but just fine. It showed up extremely poorly on camera so don't judge it by this photo, but here's what it looks like with just the two hands lumed.
Chrono pushers require quite a good heavy push to get going, or at least the first time you press the top pusher after having not used it for a while. But after that it's a bit smoother but still requires a good click which is nice as to not be prone to accidental starts. All chrono dials and functions work and the second hand immediately resets to 12 with the bottom pusher. This is my first chrono so it is a bit exciting but I also don't want to go to crazy with it since A7750's are known to be problematic, but it's nice to use the chrono function in moderation.
I saw in a review of this watch on RWG that there's a nut on the inner side of the crown that prevents the crown from being screwed all the way in and this is still true on mine. It's really a minor issue though and you can only notice it of you look at that area on an angle to see the gap. From atop everything looks fine.
Bracelet is quite interesting with its "link" design whereby each link comes apart in two and you sort of build the bracelet a bit like lego or K'nex or something. It's rather simple to size as you just need a pin removal tool to separate the clasp from the links and then just a small flathead screwdriver to unscrew the 2nd half-link of each link (first one comes loose immediately). Overall a pretty solid design and replicated very well. Feels nice on the wrist. I should note that in that same review I mentioned from RWG, it was mentioned that the clasp didn't line up well and had a bit of a gap between the two sides, but I can say that mine does not have this issue and the alignment is very good.
I have to say it feels like a very big watch. Almost feels as big as my 45mm CrPO even though this is just 42mm. It must be because the dial itself is very large and has a very thin (non-moving) bezel to maximize the open space of the watch face. You can see it here compared to my other recent additions -- a 42mm Black Bay and a 40mm Yachtmaster. And then also next to my 45mm CrPO.
Overall it's just a great rep of a great watch and I cannot highly recommend it enough. Tbqh I think it's the best looking Tag on the market and you really can't go wrong with this one.