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VIDEO: Carrera Calibre 1887 Chronograph Review by The Watch Mister

on October 01, 2016

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FIRST IMPRESSIONS: Carrera Calibre 16 Chronograph

CV2A84.FC6394 Wow, so here we have a Carrera on a brown leather strap, so this is only going one way right? Well, not so fast... because actually, I don't mind this one. It reminds me of a Timex I used to have many years ago (back in the days when I used to buy my wrist-watches from Argos - I know, the shame of it...). It was either called an Explorer or an Expedition or something else beginning with E that made it sound rugged and manly, and truth be told it looked nothing like this Carrera, but it did have a suede/leather type strap and at the time I really liked it. Not actually sure what happened to it, probably fell to bits like the Citizen I had after it... But anyway, I think this is rather smart and reminds me of that new Aquaracer with the brown nylon strap... ...a watch incidentally, which looks a million times better once you get it off that daft nylon thing and put it on black rubber. In fact now that I've seen it on black rubber I am sorely tempted to buy one, wer...

ON THE WRIST: Carrera Calibre 16 White Dial Chronograph

CV2A11.BA0796 TAG Heuer Boutique / Bicester Village, 27th July 2018 I've always really liked the Carreras with the 'minute' numerals, but when they are placed on a black dial they do have a tendency to disappear as they reflect the black in their polished surfaces. One way to resolve the problem is to have a white dial and that's exactly what we have here... and it's a bit of a stunner to say the least. There's nothing overly remarkable about the watch in general, it's a 43mm case, with a Calibre 16 movement as you'd expect and have seen in countless other Carreras. But that combination of white dial and minute markers really works well and gives this one a modern feeling that eludes a lot of Carreras. Now I'm sure this won't be everyone's cup of tea because a lot of Carrera fans would rather they didn't have a modern feeling at all, but there's many, many Carreras out there for those people, and it's nice that this one is a littl...

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VIDEO: Carrera Calibre 1887 Chronograph Review by The Watch Mister

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