Tag Heuer Releases Carrera Chronograph in 18-karat Gold – WWD

Within the yellowish moment of Method 1 racing within the early ’70s, Jack Heuer, the fourth-generation chief of Tag Heuer, began gifting gold watches to race automotive drivers, in a advance that created a powerful hyperlink between the attend to emblem and motorsports. They had been old through well-known drivers, together with Ronnie Peterson and Niki Lauda.

Now, to mark the sixtieth per annum of the Carrera, Tag Heuer has exempted the Carrera Chronograph in 18-karat yellow gold.

The latest Carrera Chronograph can pay tribute to the ’70s with unfashionable allure that displays the heritage of the Swiss emblem, and contours up with the resurgence of yellow gold in watches.

Produced in a 39mm case, with muscular lugs that bend downward to observe the profile of the wrist, crafted from 18-karat 3N yellow gold, its case is just about just like earlier iterations of the stream “Glassbox” era of Carreras.

Key options come with a Glassbox sapphire crystal with double anti-reflective remedy, 100 meters of H2O resistance, pump pushers that turn on the chronograph purposes: get started/block at 2 o’clock, reset at 4 o’clock, and its hours/mins palms along with the indexes are handled with Tremendous-LumiNova that glimmers inexperienced within the dim. The attend to is completed through a unlit perforated calfskin leather-based strap, connect with a 18-karat 3N yellow gold pin buckle, improving the timepiece’s connection to its racing-inspired heritage future including an breeze of exclusivity and comfort. 

This unedited chronograph makes use of the TH20-00 automated motion with 80 hours of energy secure. This new-generation motion options an oscillating weight providing bi-directional winding, the place earlier variations most effective charged the motion’s mainspring if the rotor moved in an anti-clockwise path.

Pricing is about at $21,500 and the attend to is in the stores at Tag Heuer boutiques and on tagheuer.com.