Hello Haydon,
Thank you for sending in this wristwatch to mearto.com for an appraisal. I shall try to help you with that tonight.
TITLE:
Gent’s/Divers, self-winding, water-resistant, quartz, stainless steel and 18k gold electroplated steel, wristwatch with round button chronograph, three registers, date, tachometer and a stainless steel Tag Heuer steel and electroplated gilt steel link bracelet with double safety clasp bracelet, ‘S/EL quartz chronograph-Professional 200 meter’ model, ref. CG-1121-0, Case number illegible, made by Tag Heuer, Switzerland, circa early 1990s.
DESCRIPTION:
Case: 38mm diameter (not including crown), tonneau shape, brushed steel and gilt steel, wrist chronograph with screwed-down case back and screwed down crown with Tag Heuer logo with steel guards, graduated uni-directional revolving fluted edge gilt bezel, with ratcheted 0-60 minute elapsed-time, sapphire crystal, integrated with a combination satin/polished finish bracelet of steel and electroplated gold link bracelet with unique Tag Heuer ‘S’- shaped links and a tri-fold, sport style, security, flip-lock clasp with Factory Logo. The back cover is engraved with the Tag Heuer emblem, and ‘Swiss since 1860’ in the center and around the periphery, “Swiss Made, stainless steel, Water resistant 200m, sapphire crystal, CG-1121-0 and an illegible case number.
Dial: Satine gilt dial with tritiumed luminous steel oval hour indices, external tachometer scale to 400 units, subsidiary dials for continuous seconds @6, the 12- hour register @10, the 1/10th of a second register @2 and the date aperture @4. Luminous steel "skeleton/Mercedes" hands and center seconds pointer and red Tachymetre hand. The dial is marked, “Tag Heuer Professional 200 meters, T-Swiss made-T”.
Movement: This is not shown but should be the ETA-made quartz Tag Heuer caliber 4.93 with the following functions: 12 hr, 60 min, 60 sec, 1/10 sec, split-function, chronograph, date calendar in a window display. Dial, case and movement triple signed
CONDITION:
Case – Appears to be in excellent condition along with the bracelet.
Dial – Excellent
Movement – Not examined but assumed to be original to this case, genuine and assumed functional.
HISTORICAL NOTES:
The TAG Heuer S/EL came to symbolize the revival of TAG Heuer in the late 1980s/ early 1990s as the first watch in a new generation of models. The brand had suffered from a lack of investment during the Piaget/ Lemania years and it was only when TAG acquired Heuer in 1985 that we began to see new ideas and watches appear. The S/EL may have been the first 100% newly created model conceived and born under the new Tag Heuer leadership. The S/EL was in the TAG Heuer range from 1987- 1999 and during this twelve years there were seven major model lines: Watch, Chronograph and Digital Chronograph (all quartz), Watch, Chronometer and Chronograph (automatic) and the S/EL Leather series.
The quartz chronograph was added to the S/El range in 1990 and offered
1/10th second precision. The layout was dictated by the ETA quartz movement, which had a sort of “2-6-10” placement, with the top two registers sitting higher than usual. A tachymeter scale was featured on the inner flange, which helps give the chronograph models more visual depth.
All of the chronograph models have “Professional” on the dial and a “double baguette” luminous marker at 12 o’clock.
The S/EL series (for Sports Elegance) was one of the first to explicitly be designed with the “Six Features” that came to define TAG Heuer in the 1990s:
Water resistant to 200 meters
Screw-in crown
Double safety clasp bracelet
Unidirectional bezel
Sapphire crystal
Luminous markings
COMPARABLES:
https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/66585097_tag-heuer-a-gentleman-s-sel-chronograph-bracelet (sold for 300 GB Pounds in 2018)
https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/56762707_tag-heuer-a-gentleman-s-sel-chronograph-bracelet (sold for 240 GB Pounds in 2017)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Retro-TAG-Heuer-CG1120-0-SEL-Quartz-Chronograph-Two-Tone-Stainless-Steel-Watch/313227718647?hash=item48edd3aff7:g:hIQAAOSwbgpfaRWb
(Sold for $333 in 2020)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-GENTS-TAG-HEUER-CG1120-0-CHRONOGRAPH-WRISTWATCH-PROFESSIONAL-STAINLESS/333692108762?hash=item4db1997fda:g:jugAAOSw~7dfMvvA (Sold for $693 in 2020)
PRICING:
In view of the fine condition of your wrist chronograph and bracelet, albeit without paperwork available, I would place a fair market value of this watch $600-$700 range. The pricing on this watch has usually been trading in a fixed range of $300-$700, with a slight elevation in market value recently.
I hope you find this appraisal helpful. It was my pleasure to appraise this handsome example.
Thank you again for choosing mearto.com for this appraisal.
My best,
David