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I had to pull that from the tag, the literal hang tag from this watch because, well, it's no longer in production and I'll expand as to why. But starting off with the case, we do have a 42 millimeter case from two o'clock to eight o'clock position. That's the finger to thumb distance there, same as the 10 to four o'clock position. Same 42 millimeters. You have full steel case construction here with set and brush finishing running from top to bottom, 12 to six o'clock sides with a nice high polish on that first bevel there, expanding out as you reach the end of the lug. Full seal construction again and sitting on the very front of the case, also a steel bezel here with very, very interestingly deep gnarling so that you can actually rotate this bidirectionally quite easily. And a very good, not say, not quite so chunky as it is crispy movement of that bidirectional bezel. Basically, so you have the zero to 60 timer there should you so desire it, right? Not entirely a sports watch for the water, but definitely a sports watch when it comes to automation and AV or automotive and aviation, as is part of the name Autavia, auto and aviation put together. Now looking here at the bezel itself kind of a domed look there giving it an almost like a tire like feeling. Sort of domed or, domed or bulging outward sort of like the automotive wheels and the wheels on air planes for landing strips. Gives it a very indicative feeling of that sort of feature. The dial itself, sort of, kind of like a smoky, warm, gray tone to it. It's more gray than it is brown. And I don't know the actual dial color, because again, this is a discontinued watch. You can't find it anywhere on TAG Heuer website and even harder to find out in the wild. Again, I'll talk about that a little bit later but here you have full Arabic set of numerals except for the six, which is taken up by the date aperture. Black background with white text in front of it. Very sort of like a copper plate type of font here. Although I say copper plate type because it's big and thick with very, very tiny if not completely unseeable serous, but quite modern and traditional at the same time, the sort of Lance style, or almost like Dofan style hands here sort of like a pencil minute hand, and certainly a Lance with a very broad tip for that seconds hand sort of indicating like it's a chronograph hand as is part of the legacy of the Autavia. Originally the chronograph used in racing and air aviation sports, accurate to within a fifth of a second here, it's just keeping track of time and at the date, but you do have that bidirectional bezel. So you do have your zero to 60 minute timer. Should you so desire it, but taking a look here again at the dial again, it has that sort of smoky gray warm gray tone to it a little bit lighter in the center and darker at the edges. So you get the maximum contrast when you when you're reading it. Index markers at the very ends there. And if I turn out the lights you can see the luminescence here quite bright actually. If can get my camera to focus nicely. There we go. Focus by itself and sort of has this mirrored rehow at the end. And the way that the crystal sits on the front gives a very distinct look indeed. Sort of a busy dial when it's, you know in low light situations, but actually not a bad thing because you do want to be a able to read it. And the Arabic numerals incredibly bright as well. The hour minute hands shining very brightly. And that seconds hand also loomed in the dark. Turning the lights back on here. Now we can take a look at the crown functions at the base position. You can just wind the watch. So you can wind this at just about any time. Just take it off your wrist and wind it. About 20-30 full winds will get you to the full power reserve without you know, if you're at a complete dead stop. Of course as you feel the resistance starting to ramp up you can stop because you've reached the full power reserve. Rather simple there. Pull the crown out to the next position. You can actually advance the date forward. It's about a quarter turn to advance the date or maybe about half turn. Yeah, it's about half turn to advance a date by one. So you'll only need to do this a few times a year, basically on the days where you don't have 31 days, as you can see we have the date filling the aperture quite tastefully as well. Pulling the chrono to the final position. It stops that seconds hand giving you the hacking function so you can set the minute hand precisely wherever it needs to go. Thanks to the sort of railroad track on the edge of this dial allows you to basically set the time nice and precise. Press the crown in. Once you have it synced up to an atomic clock, nice and easy. So what makes all of this work on the inside? Let me pull up my notes here, so I don't get this wrong. We have the movement here. It's basically the, the caliber five. You can't see through the case back but you do have the full solid steel look here with that. The propeller plus sort of the, the wheel cap or the the hub cap for the wheel, sort of encasing the that terminology of the Autavia, which is, you know the automotive and aviation put together. The caliber five COSC certified. So you do have the, you know, absolute, one of the absolute best movements available in the world, tested in, you know, five different configuration or five different orientations with the anti magnetic and anti-shock tested, basically tested for many many hours over time. 28,800 vibrations per hour which means that you have four Hertz or eight ticks between every two seconds so that you basically have the absolute precision from this watch. COSC certified means that it is basically certified from the highest standards of Swiss chronometer and chronometry basically. But more than that basically what makes this a very special watch is that not only does it say Isograph on the dial but right now you can only get these when they say automatic chronometer, as opposed to Isograph chronometer and what makes this an Isograph? It took me a bit, but I had to research it. And what the Isograph basically indicates is that while you do have the caliber five movement on the inside, it's more than just that. The hairspring itself is actually a carbon composite hairspring, a first within the Swiss watch industry. And basically that means it's a fully amagnetic hairspring that Tag Heuer, unfortunately themselves could not actually keep up with the demand for. And so they very quietly actually pulled these from the shelves and basically in and stated a recall on the Isograph and re-released it with the caliber five, but with, you know the standard hairspring supplied on the caliber five but here the Isograph, this one managed to escape and make it into our hands here at Jaztime. So what makes this so special? Well, it is because of that recall and the fact that you can't actually get this anymore. Basically the retail value for this one $3,500 as of the making of this video but you can get these from the dealer. The retail value 3,100 with the automatic version and without the carbon composite hairspring. That's the basically the only difference there but that's what makes this so collectible is that since it's gone through a recall you can't actually get this from Tag Heuer. And some sources actually say that if you were to walk into Tag Heuer with this watch they will do their darnest to try to buy this back from you because they don't want this out in the wild. For what reasons we don't know exactly. Some have indicated or some have said that maybe, you know the carbon composite hairspring hasn't undergone enough testing to actually stay reliable but, you know, testing here in the office, I've I've seen that this one works just as reliably as any other Tag Heuer watch or any other watch that is COSC certified basically on par with, you know the highest levels of watchmaking. And so there's nothing wrong with it really but all the more collectible because of that Isograph text and the fact that you have the carbon composite hairspring which I'm pretty sure you can't even get replaced. So quite a rare watch these days. Now, basically you do get up to 36 hours of power reserve with this watch. So about a day and a half you can set it down on Friday evening. You will have to pick it up back up Sunday morning give it a little wind, but you know the fact that you can basically wind it from the base position makes it so much easier. Just set it down, just give it a nice couple turns on Sunday and you're good to go, but basically wear it all day. Or if you wear this every day you won't even need to wind it at all. So good from them. Good for you. The strap here, a brown leather strap. Basically a very nice tan underneath with the sort of echo coloring for that stitching. Nice and bright on the front here giving it a sort of very nice sense of contrast, but within the same color range there. This one has been sitting around with the buckle strapped on. So it does have the markings there right in the middle sizing pin hole, all right. And the buckle itself also a matching stainless steel, very much matching with that of the case. The sort of satin brush finishing on the very edge there with the Tag Heuer logo, the word mark, at least, with the satin brush finishing on the sides and some nice high polish on those accent sides of the finish there. Nice and angular to really fit within the sort of motor racing and motor sports industry there. And while I'm here, I'll try it on my wrist once more, a little bit longer. So you can see it on a seven inch wrist. Again, 42 millimeters is the case side case size seven inches is my wrist. So it's a bit big for me but if you do have a wrist a little bit smaller I can't really recommend it for anyone whose wrist is probably, you know, maybe five and a half inches, but you know, six and up should be just fine. Although the sizing do, does allow for that. So, you know, don't, let me stop you there on my wrist a little bit rounder than flat. The lugs do come very close to the very edge of my wrist. So again, I can't really recommend this for anyone whose wrist is smaller than six inches but you know, who am I to stop you? The lugs basically allow for any size wrist to wear this watch. So the smaller you wrist, the bigger the wrist presence and when it comes to the wrist presence incredibly high contrast, very easy to see. And that's part of the hallmark of the Autavia is that it's incredibly reliable not just in the functionality, but also the form. And just looking at it with the high contrast here for the dial, very easy to read very easy to see, and incredibly accurate. Sits on the wrist, quite nicely. The lugs, again, overhang my wrist. So if you have more of a flat wrist than a round wrist this will certainly fit you much better. And if you have a larger wrist it will also sit very nicely. Even if your wrist is more round than mine. Maybe up to eight inches in circumference and even larger this will start to feel like an excellent and solid time piece on the wrist, but enough of what I think, what do you guys think about this watch? Let us know down in the comments below, what you think about the Tag Heuer Autavia Isograph. This one, probably one of the rarest watches out there in the world. We have it here at Jaztime. Just this steel case version with the warm gray dial. That's what I'm gonna call it because, Hey I can't find this on their website. They took down any indication of Isograph from their own website. So here it is in front of you on YouTube. So let us know what you think down in the comments below. Be sure to like this video, if you learned something and hit the subscribe button. Hit the bell notification so you can be notified when we go live with another video like this one. 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