- Silverstone 2010
It is indeed true that the 1970s are making a comeback, at least in watchmaking. While the worlds of fashion and music are rediscovering the 1980s, watchmaking is cautiously staying back a decade and bringing back the big televisions, cushion cases, shaded dials and reviled modular chronograph movements of the 'fabulous' 1970s, now reinterpreted and reintroduced with the all-forgiving 'vintage' label. Here, then, that after the murmurs that have swept the web for months and after prayers and suggestions from its most ardent fans, the TAG Heuer finally decided to launch the re-edition of the Silverstone, a 1974 model that combines all the above features. The new Silverstone will be produced in 2010 in a limited series of 3,000 pieces in blue and 1,500 with a metallic brown dial, but only with a strap (as opposed to the old one, which sported a bracelet in perfect Seventies style), at around €4,400. The modular chronograph movement uses an ETA base, but finished TAG Heuer. Back to the Seventies!
