Watch Your Car Files: TAG Heuer’s Mikrogirder is fast enough to time F1 laps [with video]

January 27,2012

Want to time F1 races using your own handheld stopwatch? If you have a quick enough
trigger finger, TAG Heuer has just the watch for you. The brand’s new Mikrogirder chronograph is able to time events to 1/2000 of a second. The central timing hand flies around the dial at a blistering 20 times per second. The watch uses something called a vibrating linear oscillator instead of a conventional balance wheel. The watch’s buttons are on the top of case, just like a handheld stopwatch’s. TAG Heuer has a video comparing the beat speed of this watch to conventional mechanical timepieces: missile versus Mercedes SLR, anyone?

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