Friday, January 8, 2016

TAG Heuer Carrera Calibre 36 Flyback Chronograph Review

TAG Heuer Carrera Calibre 36 is a development of the Heuer Carrera Mikrograph, launched by TAG Heuer in 2011. The Mikrograph is famous for offering a 1/ 100th second chronograph and solving the challenge that evaded TAG Heuer’s previous efforts at this precision of timing. The best TAG Heuer Carrera replica watches at captainthewatch.is.

43mm case, and with a thickness of  14.93mm, which to put in context is slightly slimmer than the Carrera 1887, which comes in at 15.78mm. There are two materials offered for the case, Stainless Steel and Titanium-carbide-coated Titanium. The steel models have a combination of brushed and polished finishes, which off-set each-other nicely, for example, the polished underside of the bezel.  The pushers and crown on the steel models are based on the Carrera 1887 design.

The dial has a two-element design, with the steel models offering a contrasting outer ring and centre dial- Silver (White) and Anthracite or Black and Anthracite. Note how the minute hand only extends to the edge of the centre dial rather than to edge of the dial as would be the case with a traditional watch. The Chronograph hand, however, is longer, again emphasising that this dial serves two purposes. The two registers are set inside angled surrounds and finished with an azurage pattern. The finishing on this dial is really special- you have the gloss finish of the outer ring, the beautiful star-burst finish of the inner dial and then the azurage pattern on the sub-dials. It’s a very interesting dial, and one that works extremely well.

The Calibre 36 Flyback is based on the El Primero 405. Still, TAG Heuer take the same approach with the Calibre 36 in the Grand Carrera, which is a modified El Primero 400 with 42 different components, yet still wearing the Calibre 36 badge. The Calibre 36 is a beautiful looking movement, a view you can enjoy from the sapphire caseback.

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