![]() ![]() That audience wants mostly conservative, versatile, and cosmopolitan products that can easily fit into today’s trendy lifestyle. Recall that while TAG Heuer does make a lot of watches for timepiece collectors and aficionados, the brand’s bread & butter has always been mainstream luxury Swiss Made watches. What do these entry-level Carrera watches mean to the TAG Heuer brand? While there is a lot of enthusiast interest for TAG Heuer’s more complicated or quirkier watches in the collector community, products like these roughly $3,000 Carrera models are for a slightly different audience. Dial colors are, for the time being, very conservative, with options including black (with silver or gold rose-toned hands and hour markers), blue, and this picture’s silver tone. I want to mention that in addition to the three-hand models pictured here (and the already discussed chronograph versions), TAG Heuer also produces the new Carrera Twin-Time, which is a GMT version in the 41mm-wide case. The larger new Carrera collection includes a fair number of models when it comes to dial colors and strap options (with more probably coming soon). These two watches in the photo are the references WBN2111.BA0639 (Carrera Calibre 5 39mm on the bracelet) and the WBN2011.FC6484 (Carrera Calibre 5 41mm on the strap). In this review, I check out two new TAG Heuer Carrera Calibre 5 watches that represent a big part of TAG Heuer’s “everyday elegance” focus. The updated version catalog led by TAG Heuer designer Guy Bove is very much about capturing the classic essence of the Carrera while putting them into a wearable package meant for today’s enthusiasts. 2021 saw an overhaul of many TAG Heuer Carrera watches, including these Chronograph models here. The Carrera watch began decades ago as a motorsports-themed chronograph and sports watch, but over the course of its complicated evolution, the product also took the form of dressier “office” or “dress” pieces, in addition to beefier chronographs and other sportier models. Tag Heuer caliber 5 info on tagheuer.T AG Heuer recently debuted a brand-new collection of its iconic Carrera sports watch family for everyday elegant wear.The photo above is from a TAG Heuer Link Day Date (Ref: WJF2010). You may notice that the first movement rendering below has a rounded rotor without Côtes de Genève (Geneva stripes), but there arealso rounded versions with 8 vertical stripes (as seen in the photo below). Older models will have a solid rotor, while the newer versions have two triangle shapes cut out at the bottom. ![]() The Calibre 5 has been in production for quite some time and has undergone some updates in terms of style. If you find examples of watches that contain the Calibre 5 but with obvious differences in the appearance of the rotors (oscillating weight), do not be alarmed. “A number of TAG Heuer automatic movements are awarded an Official Swiss Chronometer Control (C.O.S.C.) Certificate, the ultimate recognition of precision and reliability.” Different Rotors However, keep in mind that not all Calibre 5 movements are COSC. TAG also uses a high grade variation of the 2824 which is COSC certified. 25 jewels means you have an ETA, 26 jewels means you have the Sellita. ![]() The easiest way to tell which movement your watch has is to look at the jewel count engraved on the movement itself. Some of the topics covered in this caliber listing:Īs mentioned above, TAG Heuer watches powered by the Calibre 5 movement can contain either an ETA 2824-2 or Sellita SW200-1 base caliber. ![]()
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