Fresh from the Showcase at SwissWatchExpo I'm Michael and
I've got one of my absolute favorite TAG Heuer Carrera watches coming up
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so if you give us a call here at SwissWatchExpo and you ask me Michael why do you like this watch
so much I'm going to tell you I love the marriage of Motorsports and watches and sometimes they
make a lot more sense than others we've seen you know the Bentleys from Breitling we've seen lots
of other watches we've seen AMG watches we've seen Mercedes I love in the the Breitling Top
Time series the way we have the the Mustang the Corvette we have lots of iconic sports cars but
what's interesting about this is that the name Carrera is a Spanish word that means both race
and career and at Porsche they really look at this as racing as a marriage of the career and everyday
sporting luxury out there on the streets now the name Carrera it comes from we've talked about this
before the Mexican Pan-America endurance race that went coast to coast in the early 1950s it
is considered sort of the man's man race it has a higher kill rate than any other race that's ever
been they finally had to shut it down because it was just so lethal but Porsche did very very well
in these races and so in 1963 when they came out with their first 911 the absolute iconic sports
car they had already been using the name Carrera with an earlier Model A356 Speedster that had
introduced for the first time four overhead cams and this was a wild idea at the time but Porsche's
idea has always been instead of you know piling a big V8 into the car or a V10 or a V12 that instead
they would keep the cars small and light extremely good handling and get more horsepower through
technology and said so that's really where these cars come from the name Carrera at this point they
put on the highest performance 911s that they put out you can even get the one with you know
900 with 572 horsepower right here in Atlanta we have the North American headquarters for Porsche
and they have a test track they have the Porsche Driving Experience where you can hone your skills
you can actually get there a variety of different cars out on the racetrack you can learn how to
drive them better and safer and faster but they also have a ride-along experience if you want to
take that top of the line 911 around the track with a professional driver showing you exactly
what it'll do but they can make it an all-day experience they have a museum they have a cafe
for dining the 356 Cafe so a lot of fun when you come here to Atlanta make an appointment come by
SwissWatchExpo check out our store in our service center and and our watches will be happy to have
you here but it'd be really cool if you also came to the Porsche experience but back to the watch
this watch came out in 2021 as a collaboration between Porsche and TAG Heuer and it makes perfect
sense because they both named their product after that Mexican Pan-America race the TAG Heuer or at
the time Heuer Carrera came out of the 1960s as a pure racing watch Heuer has a long history with
Motorsports you see lots of Heuer in the movie Ford versus Ferrari with them wearing lots of
those vintage Autavias and lots of other cool watches and so it makes perfect sense that they
would also want to collaborate with Porsche who's done a very good job of correctly using that word
Carrera in their product lines so whether you're a fan of the 911 or the Macan or are they you
know the the Cayenne or the little car that saved Porsche from going out of business the Boxster I
could see you wearing this watch getting in your car enjoying being able to look down at the watch
and enjoy all the automotive design cues that are built into it let's kind of start with the strap
this is a really unusual strap it's stitched like a steering wheel or a gear shifter or the
seats you never see the center seam on a white strap and it's got the deployment Buckle but you
see how it's really clean there's no holes there are no keepers to get in the way or wear out too
fast it's a double trigger release on a deployment buckle and one of the things I love about this see
how the strap just goes right through the way you adjust the size is real easy you just flip this
piece right here and then you pull out as much or as little strap as you need and it just sort of
crimps it and then you clip it back down and it's ready to put on so when you slide the watch on
you're going to see it just closes real nicely and the watch looks fantastic on the
wrist it's a 44-millimeter case and it wears like 44-millimeter I mean it is it's not a small watch
but I don't have especially big wrists and you can see I can carry it just fine so I think
that this is a great watch for everybody even though it's 44-millimeter it's a big
sporting size it's 15.2 millimeters thick so you're probably not going to fit it under a
dress shirt but that's okay it's a sporting watch and the movement in it is the Heuer 02
which is a really great movement it has an 80-hour power Reserve which they tell you at
the bottom of the dial just in case you forgot it has the exhibition caseback and the way they've
modified it for this Porsche Edition is that the rotor itself looks like a Porsche steering wheel
which is very cool the movement has a column wheel and a vertical clutch penny is a big fan
of the vertical clutch because you can run the chronograph seconds all the time the running
seconds for the watch is actually at six o'clock and it's very subtle because it's a gray hand on a
black background it's pretty hard to see although the watch does give you a hacking mechanism where
when you pull the crown out and this is just a pull out crown by the way it's not a screw
down crown but the watch is water resistant to 100 meters 330 feet but when we pull the crown out the
second hand stops so that you can coordinate it with some sort of a reference time like time.gov
and get it set exactly the chronograph counters are all tipped in red to make them stand out I
love the red trim the word Porsche here on the bezel is in red and we even have
a red band around the crown so it's really easy to run the chronograph you start you
can see the second hand started here with the minutes and hours would count stop and reset
one of the things I love about the dial is the way the luminous numbers look like the numbers on a
Porsche gauge very reminiscent of a speedometer on a sports car but the texture of the dial
again Penny's a big fan of this dial and so it really is striking the sub-dials are just
a polished dished black and so they stand out from the background the background it's almost
pebbly it looks like the the street it looks like asphalt like tarmac and when you move the watch it
really adds a lot of scintillation some sparkle of the light that hits it and it makes the watch
just really attractive I think that that not only is it a great background to make it really easily
red it's very legible because the hands just stand out against that background so well but it also
just gives the watch a great look and it's really unusual I've never seen a dial like this before
the bezel is of course ceramic and filled with white and red so that it's very legible for you
to use the tachymeter you can use that to measure miles per hour kilometers per hour of your your
car if you're hitting reference points the edge of the bezel is satin and then the sides of the case
are high polished but the tops of the lugs are satin though it's a really a great combination
of finishes the movement is outstanding the strap is just fantastic I love the dial of course it
comes in this commemorative Porsche TAG heuer box that you see here when you look at the listing on
our website we always picture the actual box that comes with a watch if there is one so you
never have to guess what comes with it we picture everything that comes with the watch the pictures
on our website are always of the actual watch you'll receive they're not stock photos they
look fantastic and they're they're part of one of the reasons why we've become really a go-to
reference in the pre-owned watch world because the pictures are just so good on our website but we're
happy to set up a FaceTime call show you the watch let you see it on the wrist give you a tour of the
store if you can't make it here to Atlanta and to the Porsche experience but we'd love to have you
give us a call see if we still have this one in stock and we'll be happy to put it on your wrist.