Tag Heuer rethinks a basic with teal inexperienced Carrera Glassbox watch

Tag Heuer’s ‘Glassbox’ Carrera was probably the greatest watches of 2023, close to sufficient the proper replace for a design that stretches again to 1963. Its design group recreated the texture of the unique Carrera with out the brand new watch trying like a easy copy, which could be a difficult steadiness to realize. It helps that present design tendencies – favouring small watches – appear to be edging within the path of the 39mm diameter Carrera (and away from the bulkier sports-luxe model of the Royal Oak). And it’s price noting that manufacturing methods and limitations have a a lot stronger impression on the ultimate appear and feel of watches than is usually credited – the unique Carrera famously owes its most distinctive particulars, such because the angled internal seconds monitor, to improvements developed by Jack Heuer’s suppliers, whereas the finer precision of present manufacturing methods can render designs sterile.

Correctly sufficient, Tag Heuer has revisited the system to broaden the Carrera assortment with a ‘Dato’ model chronograph and a tourbillon, each in teal inexperienced, for basic launch (and you may assume that different colors will seem later, in addition to boutique-only variations and collaborations).

Inexperienced and enviable: new Tag Heuer Carrera watches

The ‘Dato’ is the extra attention-grabbing of the 2, because it seems again to a 1968 variation the place the chronograph hour totaliser was changed with a date window. The result’s a much less cluttered and pleasingly uneven dial that provides better prominence to the curved seconds monitor.