{"id":2115102,"date":"2026-10-18T10:52:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T08:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/?p=2115102"},"modified":"2026-10-19T00:44:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T22:44:51","slug":"tag-heuer-gulf-formula-1-chronograph-fourth-collaboration-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/2026\/10\/18\/tag-heuer-gulf-formula-1-chronograph-fourth-collaboration-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"TAG Heuer \u00d7 Gulf: the fourth life of an icon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Swiss watch manufacture and the legend of motorsport oil sign their fourth collaboration: an automatic Formula 1 chronograph in Gulf\u2019s orange and blue, as precise on the wrist as a competition watch on the circuit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some pairings of images belong to the universal heritage of motorsport. The sky blue and deep orange of Gulf Oil are among those moments frozen in collective memory \u2014 Steve McQueen\u2019s Porsche 917 in Le Mans, Miles and Hulme\u2019s Ford GT40 at Daytona, the McLaren F1s of the 1990s. These colours have a historical density that few logos in the world can claim. TAG Heuer knows this, and that is why this fourth collaboration with Gulf is not a marketing accident: it is a conversation between two heritages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TAG Heuer and motor racing have shared a common history since the 1960s. Monaco, Carrera, Silverstone: the names of the watches are those of the circuits. The Swiss house has accompanied the great hours of motorsport as official timekeeper, as partner, as witness. When it partners with Gulf, it is not to borrow the symbolic capital of another brand \u2014 it is to bring together two players of the same golden age of mechanical sport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The chronograph as an object of memory<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The TAG Heuer Formula 1 Automatic Chronograph \u00d7 Gulf is the fourth piece born of this collaboration. It takes up the codes established by the previous iterations \u2014 the Formula 1 case, the automatic movement, the graphic boldness \u2014 pushing them one degree further in chromatic assertion. The result is a watch that does not seek to be discreet. It seeks to be recognisable, immediately, like the nose of a Gulf racing car in a rear-view mirror.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This choice of legibility is not trivial in a watchmaking landscape dominated by the codes of minimalism and discretion. TAG Heuer deliberately chooses colour, visible history, the acknowledged reference. It is a way of saying that luxury can also be popular \u2014 popular in the noble sense of the term, that is, shared, recognised, celebrated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colour as heritage<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

What this collaboration reveals, more deeply, is the question of the legitimacy of colour in prestige watchmaking. For decades, the sector favoured satin-finished steel, the black or cream dial, sobriety as a marker of status. Coloured pieces were relegated to entry-level ranges or \u201cyoung\u201d editions. Gulf overturns this implicit hierarchy by granting TAG Heuer a cultural permission: that of claiming a heritage that is both popular and glorious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gulf\u2019s blue and orange are not fashion colours. They do not follow the trends of the Pantone Color Institute. They have a history, a date of birth, faces that wore them. On a 43-millimetre case on the wrist, they tell of an entire era \u2014 that of drivers without full-face helmets and cars without wings. A dangerous, romantic, bygone era. An era that will not return, but whose memory deserves to be worn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Swiss watch manufacture and the legend of motorsport oil sign their fourth collaboration: an automatic Formula 1 chronograph in Gulf\u2019s orange and blue, as precise on the wrist as a competition watch on the circuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":2071547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2115102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-watches-and-jewelry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2115102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2071547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2115102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2115102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2115102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}