VIDEO: “3 things I was converted to at my first Baselworld”
Meet Daniel. That’s us leaving Basel yesterday below, and that’s Daniel on the right. Daniel loves watches. Daniel has never been to Baselworld. Daniel is now working with us at Time+Tide and when he heard that the convoy was assembling for take-off, he put his hand up. Could he join us? The enthusiasm, the excitement, it was all there; the light was in his eyes. We said sure, and, voila, we had a project manager. The question then, for the rest of us hardened watch fair warriors, was: ‘What would Daniel think of Baselworld? How would it be different to his expectations?’ The question then, for the rest of us hardened watch fair warriors, was: ‘What would Daniel think of Baselworld? How would it be different to his expectations?’ I won’t steal any more of the video’s thunder, but needless to say Daniel has found Baselworld a powerful influencer of opinion and changer of minds. When he said, “I never would have thought I’d …” for the 15th time, we decided there was definitely a video in it. And here it is!
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It very quickly became apparent — after only a few hours on the ground at Basel 2018 — that GMTs were everywhere, and not just the obvious Pepsi-bezelled, Jubilee-braceleted option from the Big Crown. So Andy and I took some time out from our busy schedules to discuss this phenomena, and some prime examples. So, in addition to the Rolex GMT-Master II, we noted that Patek had doubled down on their Calatrava Travel Time. TAG Heuer added a little more complication to their Carrera Heuer 02, adding a blue and black bezelled GMT into the family. And finally Tudor, not to be outdone, announced their own two-timer — a Black Bay that borrows its GMT bezel from both the BB Red and the BB Blue. So there you have it. GMTs in 2018, trend status — confirmed.
Named after the Carrera Panamericana, a legendarily dangerous car racing event of the early 1950s that took place across the open roads of Mexico and was cancelled after resulting in too many fatalities. The TAG Heuer Carrera is an icon of the motorsport-inspired watch world. And this year it celebrates 55 years since its release with a stable of new releases, like this pair of heritage-inspired Carrera Calibre 16 Chronographs, released at Baselworld 2018. Vital statistics There are two colours available, a black dial and a blue. Both with contrasting white subdials and highlights of red and orange. The top subdial measuring the chronograph minutes, while the bottom does hours, and a running small seconds takes the position at 9 o’clock. Ceramic bezels are embedded with a tachymeter scale and sit atop 100m water-resistant steel cases that measure 41mm wide and house the TAG Heuer Calibre 16, which is either a Valjoux 7750 or Sellita SW-500 movement. And a stainless-steel bracelet will come on the blue dial version, while the black dial gets a black perforated leather strap with red stitching. On the wrist They’ve definitely captured the look of many of the Carreras of days gone by. However, the…