What's in a name? In unravelling the return of the TAG Heuer Autavia, it's the key to understanding a radical change instead of a retro-fest. As has been TAG Heuer's wont, reviving classics with slightly larger cases, more modern movements, but utter fidelity to the originals' looks has been a recipe that has found universal acclaim. This time it's different.
The initial shock is finding that this is the first Autavia that isn't a chronograph. Instead of featuring the stopwatch functions which made the original a hit with racing drivers such as Jochen Rindt, film legend Burt Reynolds and rock god Mick Jagger, it shows only hours, minutes and seconds.