You Will Love This Cool Fake TAG Heuer Aquaracer 500M Caliber 16 Chronograph Watch

The Swiss watch making brand will soon start selling its mens fake Tag Heuer Aquaracer 500M Caliber 16 (Ref. CAJ2110.BA0872) automatic diving watch.

Equipped with a slightly decorated version of what once was the ubiquitous ETA 7750 automatic movement and is now its clone Sellita SW500, the TAG Heuer Aquaracer 500M Caliber 16 may become a good contender for the title of the most useless diving watch ever produced by the Swiss brand. It took TAG Heuer more than a year to introduce a chronograph version of their highly successful Aquaracer 500M Caliber 5 diving watch.

Well, at least you can use the chronograph on the surface, since, unlike most divers rated for depths up to 500 meters, this model doesn’t look on your wrist like a hungry headcrab (although it would take real guts to wear this model with a business attire.) To be frank, I can’t really imagine myself wearing this mens Tag Heuer Aquaracer 500M copy watch even with jeans and a t-shirt, too, since its dial and bezel decoration seem just too dressy for this kind of casual dress.

TAG Heuer Aquaracer 500M Caliber 16 watch replica
TAG Heuer Aquaracer 500M Caliber 16 watch replica

Really, what can be more useless than a diving watch powered by an automatic chronograph movement? You can’t use the chrono underwater, since you will most likely ruin the watch. Its tiny screen is too, err, tiny for a normal human being to see the chronograph’s readings when under water. To begin with, you don’t really need to use the chrono underwater, since the watch has a rotating bezel, which is more than adequate to measure periods of time of up to 60 minutes.

 

Together with heavy chronograph push-pieces at 2 and 4 o’clock, the watch gets even more unbalanced, looking like it is going to topple to its right side if left on a table. Frankly speaking, I don’t understand why TAG Heuer didn’t opt for the bi-compax layout that is once again becoming a trend among the watch makers.

To my taste, the extra sub-dials greatly detract from the watch’s “light-weight” design greatly diminishing the “vertical streak effect” of the original Aquaracer 500M Caliber 5 that the brand’s PR department used to brag about.

The effect was finally destroyed with transferring the small date window to its standard position at 3 o’clock (in the Caliber 5 version the window was located at 9 o’clock balancing the Aquaracer’s oversized winding crown) and moving the trademark “shield” from 12 o’clock to a position between the date window and the central axis.

Now, don’t get me wrong, I have nothing personal against this particular model. It is just that I liked the original best.

Like many objects of industrial design, this model has strong points, too.

For example, the Rolex-style fish eye lens over the calendar aperture makes the function a lot more useful: something that may models equipped with “small date” windows regretfully lack. Also, it is actually good that their own variety of ETA 7750 ditches the “day of week” part of the calendar making the dial a bit less cluttered.

The timekeeper’s body seems to be ergonomically shaped (although I can’t stress enough that, measuring 44 millimeters in diameter and also being quite thick, it is clearly not a dress Tag Heuer watch replica: it is just way too big for a normal personal to be comfortable wearing it with a shirt with relatively tight cuffs) and the bezel with its unusually shaped rim provides a very good especially if you really plan to use it under water.