TAG Heuer Carrera Seafarer Restricted Version x Hodinkee Tide Indicator

TAG Heuer, whose mother or father firm LVMH is an investor in Hodinkee, has labored with the publication turned vendor on two previous creations, a Carrea Skipper and Carrera Dato 45, and at this time debuts a 3rd.

The TAG Heuer Carrera Seafarer x Hodinkee is a restricted version trendy retro Carrera timepiece with a tide indicator and a regatta timer functioning.

Visually the design is predicated on the Abercrombie & Fitch Seafarer Ref. 2446C from 1968, with the identical colour scheme and bezel aesthetic. Nonetheless, as a substitute of utilizing a traditionally right Autavia case, the favored trendy 42 mm x 14.4 mm (48.6 mm) Carrera “Glassbox” case was used.

Naturally, the motion can also be up to date, as we see in most retro timepieces, and on this case, TAG Heuer’s 4Hz, automated, 33-jewel, 80-hour energy reserve, caliber TH20-13 with in-house tide indicator powers the hours, minutes, small seconds, chronograph, and tide indicator (no date). As you may see from the duvet picture, the crystal is prominently domed, and that too has been modernized with a premium sapphire, not plexiglass.

The Seafarer emblem was relocated to the flange of the small seconds dial at 6. The tide indicator operate is displayed within the sub-dial at 9 o’clock, and the chronograph minutes sub-dial at 3 o’clock signifies elapsed time in addition to functioning as a regatta timer due to the 5-minute yacht race interval graduations. The watch can be utilized to find out day by day tidal intervals and phases of the moon. The “TIDE” pusher on the left case flank permits for adjusting the tide indicator dial.