TAG Heuer Earns Chinese New Year Stripes with Carrera Year of the Tiger Limited Edition
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TAG Heuer expanded the scope of its Carrera Three Hands family, a subsidiary of its flagship Carrera collection, with more than a dozen new references. The Swiss sports-watch specialist completes the streamlined Three Hands series — which, like all Carrera versions, traces its lineage to the first iconic Carrera chronograph from 1963 — with an extra-special piece celebrating the 2022 Chinese New Year. Here is what you should know about the TAG Heuer Carrera Year of the Tiger Limited Edition.
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The Chinese Year of the Tiger begins on February 1, 2022, and the watch pays a visual tribute to it with its elegantly textured, stripe-patterned dial that combines two distinct shades of blue: one lighter and water-toned, the other darker and echoing the look of a tiger’s fur. The former stripes are made of horizontally brushed metal with a blue PVD treatment, the latter of painted, textured metal. The hands, applied hour indices, and frame of the day/date display are plated in 18k rose gold, as is the TAG Heuer shield logo below 12 o’clock. A white-printed minute scale appears on the solid blue flange.
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The 41-mm case is in polished stainless steel, with a polished crown in rose gold to echo the gleam of the dial details. Its caseback, fitted with a sapphire window adorned with an illustration of a blue tiger ready to pounce, offers a view of the self-winding movement, TAG Heuer’s Caliber 5, with a 28,800-vph frequency, a rapid date-correction function, and a power reserve of 38 hours. On the periphery of the caseback is an engraving denoting the watch’s limited-edition number, out of 300 pieces made.
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The TAG Heuer Carrera Year of the Tiger Limited Edition comes on a blue calfskin leather strap with gold-toned double stitching and is delivered in a blue lacquered box that bears the same tiger-stripe motif as the dial. It is priced at $3,750 and available now.
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