There’s no scarcity of regular watches impressed by Formula One racing, however discovering a smartwatch with hyperlinks to the head of motorsport is a bit bit extra of a problem. Step ahead Tag Heuer and its ongoing partnership with Oracle Red Bull Racing. Now, eager F1 followers can put on a smartwatch with robust ties to their favourite sport with the Tag Heuer Connected Calibre E4 x Oracle Red Bull Racing Edition.
It’s primarily based on the 45mm Connected Calibre E4 smartwatch with a black diamond-like carbon (DLC) coated titanium case and buttons, together with sapphire crystal over the 1.39-inch OLED display screen. It comes with 4 unique watch faces. These embrace Season, which exhibits the flags associated to all of the F1 international places for the race season across the bezel, and Asphalt, which options backgrounds impressed by racetracks. There’s additionally one which takes on the look of the final mechanical Tag Heuer and Red Bull watch’s dial.
Watch faces apart, the opposite standout visible facet of the smartwatch is the strap. It’s unique to this mannequin and constructed from two supplies. The underside is rubber and topped with blue leather-based that has an uncommon asphalt-style end, with the 2 sides then separated by a single pink stripe. It seems to be excellent, but when it’s too flashy for you, then a easy black rubber strap is included within the field, and each have Tag Heuer’s glorious titanium buckle with its magnetic clasp.
The smartwatch hyperlinks to an particular app in your cellphone, and with an Oracle Red Bull Racing app too, which supplies a spread of F1-related options together with post-race particulars on Red Bull Racing’s drivers’ Max Verstappen and Sergio Pérez’s outcomes. The smartwatch additionally is available in a particular presentation field with matching colours. Otherwise, the underlying expertise is similar as the usual model, with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 4100+ processor, a coronary heart fee sensor, Google Wear OS 3 software program, and varied Tag Heuer sports activities monitoring apps.
The Tag Heuer Connected Calibre E4 x Oracle Red Bull Racing Edition is available to buy now and prices $1,950 or 1,700 British kilos. It follows a number of different particular version Connected Calibre smartwatches, equivalent to the Malbon Golf edition launched earlier this 12 months.