A Tank that never needs the boutique
By Priya Nair, Singapore ·
The clever thing about the SolarBeat is that you can barely tell. Light reaches the cells through cut-out Roman numerals, so from a normal distance it looks like any other Tank Must.
Same 33.7 mm case, same 6.6 mm, same 20 mm leather strap, and only a couple of hundred dollars more than the battery version at 3,400 to 3,600. I think that premium is worth it if you leave watches in drawers for months, because it removes the battery change from your list of reasons to visit the boutique.
One caveat: a solar watch living in a dark drawer still runs down, so keep it somewhere it sees daylight. Resale is no different from the quartz. Choose whichever dial you like the look of and stop overthinking it.