Tag Heuer’s new Connected Calibre E4 provides higher specs and a modern, smaller 42mm mannequin

Tag Heuer has formally debuted its fourth-generation of luxurious Wear OS-powered smartwatches, the Connected Calibre E4 sequence, providing a quicker and extra highly effective processor, longer battery life, an improved shows, and extra software program options. Tag Heuer can be bringing again the smaller 42mm dimension alongside the “standard” 45mm model, which the corporate didn’t provide again when the E3 sequence was launched in 2020.

From the skin, the brand new 45mm Connected Calibre E4 has a extra streamlined design than the 2020 mannequin, with much less chunky buttons and a extra pronounced crown to assist navigate across the watch. It has a extra conventional design, although, with a flat sapphire crystal masking the OLED panel and a pricier titanium choice. The 42mm variant, alternatively, is the extra trendy of the 2, with a thinner case and smaller bezel that blends neatly into the show beneath a domed sapphire crystal.

Both watches, nevertheless, profit from the larger inside upgrades that Tag Heuer is making with the brand new fashions. That contains an improve to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 4100 Plus, the corporate’s strongest smartwatch processor, the addition of Bluetooth 5.0 (which Tag Heuer says will allow information to sync to a smartphone twice as rapidly because the earlier era), and an altimeter (which joins the prevailing accelerometer, coronary heart fee monitor, compass and GPS sensors).

Tag Heuer can be promising a full day of battery life on each fashions. The bigger 45mm variant (with its bigger battery) is rated for a full day of exercise with both one hour of working and two hours of strolling or 5 hours of golf monitoring combined in. The 42mm mannequin, alternatively, is rated to solely attain a full day’s price of battery life with an hour or much less of run monitoring. There’s additionally a brand new stand-style charger, which magnetically snaps onto the watch and helps show it in your nightstand if you’re recharging in a single day.

There’s additionally some extra software program enhancements. Tag Heuer is including guided exercises that run totally on the Connected smartwatches with the brand new replace, together with a wide range of new watchfaces that combine extra information from issues like health, sports activities, climate, and extra.

Image: Tag Heuer

Image: Tag Heuer

Unfortunately, the Connected Calibre E4 received’t ship with Wear OS 3, Google’s overhaul of its smartwatch working system that it’s collaborating on with Samsung — as a substitute, it’ll include the prevailing Wear OS 2 platform, with Tag Heuer promising {that a} free improve will arrive sooner or later “when the update becomes available.”

Lastly, there’s the elephant within the room: the worth. Despite the truth that they’re smartwatches, the Connected Calibre E4 fashions (like their predecessors) nonetheless carry Tag Heuer’s luxurious vogue value tags. The 42mm mannequin is about to value $1,800, whereas the 45mm begins at $2,050 for a metal mannequin with a rubber strap, $2,250 for metal with a bracelet, and $2,550 for the complete titanium mannequin.

To soften the blow, Tag Heuer is constant its improve program, whereby house owners of older Connected smartwatches can commerce them in for credit score on the brand new mannequin, however its nonetheless a hefty value to pay for a smartwatch that can possible be outdated in simply two to 3 years.

The Tag Heuer Connected Calibre E4 is about to go March tenth.