TAG Heuer and Nintendo team up to create a limited-edition smartwatch featuring Nintendo’s famous plumber, the energetic Mushroom Kingdom hero, Mario, who makes a run for the TAG Heuer Connected and rewards all your activities.

TAG Heuer Connected x Super Mario Limited Edition

It’s a me, Mario! The little Italian plumber who celebrated his 35th anniversary last year and changed the way we played video games in the mid-80s, now finds himself running excitedly on the watchface of the latest TAG Heuer Connected. The meeting of minds between a luxury watchmaker and the acme of the gaming world is a watch that brings a daring new style to the avant-garde watchmaker’s collections. The intrepid, iconic hero comes to life in this luxury smartwatch that combines sport, technology, a touch of whimsy, and elegance in one dynamic package. In this collaboration, the TAG Heuer Connected is offering wearers a fun new way to get more active, feeling the thrill of achieving goals throughout the day.

Generations of gamers have grown up with Super Mario, with more than 370 million Super Mario games sold worldwide since 1985. Since the first Super Mario Bros. game launched in Japan in 1985, Super Mario – with his red cap and blue overalls – is one of the most recognized icons in the world.

“The inspiration for this collaboration came from our desire to gamify and bring excitement to our new wellness application and Super Mario instantly came to our minds,” says Fre?de?ric Arnault, CEO of TAG Heuer. “And it’s not just his international and intergenerational appeal that clinched it. Mario is the ultimate super-active character whose perseverance and tenacity get him out of every situation. The new hero watchface gives life to this iconic character and encourage users to team up with Mario to get out there and be more active. The TAG Heuer Connected is the perfect companion for a connected life and every active person’s best friend. With this Super Mario limited-edition smartwatch, they can add a bit of fun and originality to their activities and wellness.”

The 45 mm TAG Heuer Connected x Super Mario Limited Edition watch is a unique combination of the refinement and elegance of a chronograph-inspired timepiece crafted in the purest watchmaking tradition, with a state-of-the-art, custom-designed digital experience geared towards performance. It offers customers a striking and versatile wristwatch to enhance their individual lifestyle, from daily connected services to immersive sports experiences.

The interactive features of The TAG Heuer Connected x Super Mario Limited Edition are what make it unique

Feel the thrill with an interactive watchface

Thanks to the TAG Heuer Connected, action lies at the heart of this TAG Heuer x Super Mario collaboration. This brand-new digital creation, with an interface in the Super Mario colours, combining luxury and sport with fun features along the way, encourages the wearer to get out and about and step up their physical activity with Mario, to be rewarded by the pleasure and satisfaction of marking their progress.

TAG Heuer’s famous Connected watchfaces have been reinterpreted with Super Mario special versions, four dials revisited to include special details associated with Super Mario. The watchface was reskinned using the retro elements from the 1985 version of Super Mario Bros. with Mario, all in pixels. Also, two versions of the Heuer 02 watchface were created exclusively for this edition: a fun rendition using Super Mario’s iconic red and blue colours, and a more classic one with subtle touches of Super Mario’s red cap. Lastly, the Orbital watchface had its neural network replaced by Super Mario’s iconic elements rotating in a beautiful and mesmerizing movement.

On the exterior as well, the TAG Heuer Connected Limited Edition was designed with exclusive and subtle references that will delight Super Mario fans. The bezel graduation, push buttons and crown logo were filled with Super Mario’s famous red cap’s lacquered colour, making the watch instantly stand out from the core collection. The bezel features three iconic symbols at the three, six and nine o’clock positions, in a nod to the Super Mario objects included in the dial animations that the user can unlock and discover only when achieving goals throughout the day.

The watch is water-resistant to 5 ATM. It has a 430 mAh battery, that lasts for a full day (20 hours with 1 hour of activity), 6 hours for sports use (GPS, heart rate, and music. It is fully charged in 1 hour 30 minutes at temperatures of between 15 C and 45 C. It has special sensors for Heart rate monitor, compass, accelerometer, metrics and recorded activities. It comes in a steel case, with the screw-down caseback bearing the special inscription “TAG Heuer x Super Mario Limited Edition”. There’s Super Mario red lacquer applied to the bezel graduations, and the push buttons are lacquered in red. There’s an M symbol (for Mario) engraved on the crown, in red lacquer.

The new-look steel case also comes with two novel interchangeable straps, both featuring the signature Super Mario red colour: an elegant black leather on red rubber and a sporty alternative in matching red perforated rubber. The M symbol of Mario is engraved on the strap buckles and on the crown. Lastly, the screw-down case-back bears the special inscription “TAG Heuer x Super Mario Limited Edition”.

The TAG Heuer Connected x Super Mario Limited Edition makes moving around so much fun!

Stay on the move!

Mario himself is always on the move, whether he’s running and jumping, or playing sports like golf and tennis. His upbeat and active personality will encourage wearers of this smartwatch to enjoy moving too. With its watchface, which becomes livelier and more animated the more the wearer is active, this edition of the TAG Heuer Connected changes as its user makes progress, for a fun and motivating way of keeping active throughout the day.

The animations are based on the gamification rewards system: Mario greets you with a welcoming salute in the morning and as the day progresses and you rack up your step count, you unlock rewards at each stage of your daily target – 25%, 50%, 75% and 100% – a different animation plays out on the dial. These take the form of Super Mario’s famous objects: at 3 o’clock the Super Mushroom that makes Mario grow, at 6 o’clock the Pipe that allows him to travel fast and at 9 o’clock the Super Star that makes him invincible lights up! And when you reach 100% of your daily step count target, Mario climbs the Goal Pole, another iconic feature of the video game.

The idea is inspired by the famous “easter egg” concept that all gamers know very well, which consists of hiding features and surprises as a bonus in video games.

TAG HEUER X SUPER MARIO

The interactive watchface will be pre-installed on the TAG Heuer x Super Mario Limited Edition, but TAG Heuer will also make it available on other editions of TAG Heuer Connected at a later stage.

The TAG Heuer Connected x Super Mario Limited Edition is presented in a packaging designed exclusively for this collaboration. It also comes with a travel case in Super Mario red. This edition limited to 2,000 watches are available only in selected TAG Heuer boutiques and at www.tagheuer.com in some regions.