Tag Heuer Mikrogirder 2000 5/10,000th Of A Second Chronograph Watch

Whenever I think of an innovation in the watch industry, first name come to my mind is Tag Heuer. I must say we all are pretty much impressed with the new and latest innovations by this company.

So let’s meet the new innovation TAG Heuer Mikrogirder 2000 Concept watch- a dual-assortment, ultra high-beat watch with a Chronograph beating at 7.2 million times every hour, meaning that the watch can time events to 5/ 10,000th of a second. Perhaps the most surprising aspect of the new TAG Heuer Mikrogirder is not that TAG Heuer has put out a watch twice as fast as the Mikrotimer- it’s the fact that they’ve done it with a movement that- again- reinvents mechanical movements. The 2011 Mikrotimer had no balance wheel. The 2009 Pendulum had no hairspring. The 2012 Mikrogirder has neither.

I read in interview of Tag Heuer CEO Jean-Christophe Babin to discuss their newest and most precise chronograph watch ever, He personally tests these watches on a daily basis. The watches are then sent to the lab for analysis to see how they hold up. The wear and tear on a machine when an escapement moves so fast is intense and must be engineered really specifically.

We also notice that, TAG Heuer talk about the movement in terms of being accurate to 5/10,000th of a second, rather than 1/ 2,000th of a second. Same thing you might say, but the claim is that for the first time it is possible to break apart the 1/ 10,000th fraction of time. Having said that, they believe there is a large “2000″ at the top of the dial and in the name, so you can see it however you prefer.

I read an interview of the designer Christoph Behling who said that he was looking for a way to combine the look of the traditional Carrera case with the look of the vintage Heuer stop-watches. And that is why the Mikrogirder looks like a stop-watch sitting on top of a Carrera base case.

Reading the chronograph is tough and it doesn't measure very much time. You can listen to the video for more explanation as I like how Tag Heuer's CEO explains it best.