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TAG Heuer Carrera, racing career

2020-12-11T23:00:04.725Z


Imagined in 1963 by Jack Heuer, it reinvents itself while remaining faithful to its speed legend. Carrera? It is a legendary car race, the Panamericana, born in 1950 and relaunched in 1988. The biggest manufacturers competed there: Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz, Lancia… Its name will have inspired Porsche as well as a certain Jack Heuer . It was in 1963 that the latter imagined a watch that would become one of the flagship models of the brand which has now become TAG Heuer with its 36 mm diameter, it


Carrera?

It is a legendary car race, the Panamericana, born in 1950 and relaunched in 1988. The biggest manufacturers competed there: Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz, Lancia… Its name will have inspired Porsche as well as a certain Jack Heuer .

It was in 1963 that the latter imagined a watch that would become one of the flagship models of the brand which has now become TAG Heuer with its 36 mm diameter, its silver dial, its snailed counters at 3 and 9 o'clock as well as 'a small seconds counter at 6 o'clock.

Tag Heuer Carrera

“Jack Heuer was on a circuit, heard that name and thought it would be perfect for a watch,”

says Frédéric Arnault, current president of TAG Heuer.

That design, that name, that's him, and this watch worked right away.

At the time, it was notably worn by Scuderia Ferrari. ”

Now, the TAG Heuer Carrera collection welcomes four new chronograph models, faithful to the original design, but yet revised with a touch of modernity, in a diameter

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Source: lefigaro

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