Like many TAG Heuer chronographs from the ’60s and ’70s, the Carrera takes its title from a motorsport occasion or place-name. However whereas Monaco, Silverstone, and Monza are storied to the purpose of being family names, Mexico’s Carrera Panamerica – the damaging and sometimes lethal race for which Jack Heuer named his legible spherical chronograph – is considerably much less so. Perhaps I am a tad biased coming from the world of watches, however I feel the TAG Heuer Carrera has eclipsed its namesake occasion in renown. In any occasion, the drivers, the race, and the way in which the title Carrera rolls off the tongue have turn out to be immortalized within the title of one of the vital iconic watches of the 20th century.
