New Tag Heuer Carrera

[Tatters]

I agree about removing the date; I generally don't like date complications: they are often too small, and I don't use them anyway to check the date, so it is just something that is a hassle to change and set at the end of some months.

I got one of these in 2020, and it is the nicest looking Carrera I seen so far (Carrera Limited Edition (1000) Montreal):



It is also a 39mm, and was £5550 new. However, at 39mm the face is a bit small for me, especially the sub-dials; I definitely would not want a date crammed in there too. It has the usual problem of a small dial that the hour and minute hands will often obscure the sub-dials, which is artfully avoided in the stock photo above by using the standard 10:10 time.

[Dave+63]

Personally, I’m not a fan of the yellow but do agree that it looks better without the date.

The chronograph pushers are nicer on your too.

[Tatters]

Interestingly, the yellow is not lume, it is just there for colour. There is no lume on this dial, which is OK for me as I am not bothered about lume. Usually my watches do not see enough daylight to warrant having lume, and on the rare occasions I try to read a watch at night, the lume is either too faded or blurry to make out the time.

[Christian]

Not massively keen on the yellow, but I do prefer those Heuer reissues compared to the latest model. I'd agree, no date is better.

[oldoakknives]

Second hand dial and hand should match the other two. Looks odd.

If you mean the red tipped hand, I don't think that is the seconds hand, but the 60 second counter for the chronograph. The seconds hand is in the small sub-dial at 6 o'clock, with the date crammed on top of it. The sub-dial at 3 o'clock is the chronograph 30 minute counter, and the sub-dial at 9 o'clock is the chronograph 12 hour counter. That is the same layout as my Montreal edition.

I meant the subdial at 6 should match the subdials at 3 and 9.

[Tatters]

I guess they have done it that way so that it is not so obvious that the date is half on the sub-dial, and half not.