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TAG Heuer's orange Formula 1 Solargraph marks Zandvoort's last Dutch Grand Prix
TAG Heuer marks the last Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort with a 38mm solar quartz Formula 1, orange throughout, A$3,200 here.
Hen & Mills Editorial · 2 min read · 11 August 2026
Zandvoort hosts its last Dutch Grand Prix this year, as Fratello and Time+Tide have both pointed out. TAG Heuer has sent the circuit off in orange, which was never going to be any other colour. The Formula 1 Solargraph, reference WBY111H.FT8128, runs orange from the bezel to the strap, and TAG Heuer Australia has it at A$3,200.
It went up on the Australian site as a coming-soon limited edition, with a countdown ticking toward an online pre-sale before the race.
The TH50-00 and its fifteen-year cell
The movement is the TH50-00, a solar quartz. TAG Heuer says a full charge runs it for up to ten months, and a short spell under any light buys another day. Hours, minutes, seconds, date. The rechargeable cell is rated to last up to fifteen years.
Fifteen is the number I keep coming back to. Anyone who's opened a drawer and found a quartz watch with a dead cell sitting in a stained movement knows why that number matters. Here the light does the daily work and the cell's the only bit that eventually needs swapping, on a timescale long enough that most of these will have changed wrists before it comes up.
38mm of sand-blasted steel, and a bezel made of composite
The case is 38mm wide and 9.9mm thick in sand-blasted steel, good to 100 metres, with a plain steel caseback and 18.5mm between the lugs. The bezel turns, and it's made from TH-Polylight, TAG Heuer's own composite. That's how you get orange this saturated without it chipping off the way paint would.
The dial is opalin in grey and orange with applied indices, and the strap is perforated orange rubber on a steel pin buckle. It's a lot of orange. At 38mm I reckon it stays the right side of costume, which a 43mm version wouldn't have managed.
Tudor money for a quartz Formula 1
A$3,200 buys quartz on a rubber strap in a sand-blasted case, and it's also Tudor Black Bay money. I'm not going to pretend that looks good written down.
The Formula 1 has always been a fashion watch with a stopwatch's attitude, though, and something tied to the final running of a race tends to hold its value in attention if not in dollars. Solar quartz in a small case makes a genuinely useful everyday watch too, the sort you grab without thinking about winding it. So it comes down to what Zandvoort is worth to you. If the answer's not much, the standard Formula 1 Solargraph does the same job without the orange.
One thing's still unclear. WatchInsider reported two Zandvoort Solargraphs, but TAG Heuer's Australian site shows only WBY111H.FT8128. If a second reference is coming here, it isn't listed yet.
