![]() The biggest distinction here is the addition of a tourbillon, though TAG fans will recognise the chronograph’s column-wheel construction and checkerboard motif (inspired by the one-off Carbon Monaco commissioned for Only Watch 2021). On the mechanical front, the Plasma is powered by a derivation of the robust Heuer 02 movement. In addition to the tourbillon cage, each of the Carrera Plasma’s chronograph registers incorporates a diamond-based finish. Yet more interesting still is the manner in which TAG have incorporated them into this new Carrera: shards of ice are inlaid all across the 44mm case’s lateral surfaces, while each chronograph register is decorated using a polycrystalline diamond (attached to its parent surface using a brass base). Typically associated with the jewellery industry, they are decidedly rarer inside the context of watchmaking. ![]() Synthetic diamonds are, of course, not a novel occurrence. Watch writers have variously regurgitated CEO Frederic Arnault’s comments about how the Carrera Plasma “expand the possible palette and designs for diamond watches and diamonds in general,” but more importantly, it signals TAG Heuer’s determination to push the boundaries of material science – something we’ve already seen several times in 2022 with innovations like the Solargraph’s luminescent DLC coating. The proverbial jewels in the crown of this extreme technical exercise consist of a carbon-composite hairspring and crown machined entirely out of lab-grown diamonds. True to its name, the Carrera Plasma Tourbillon Nanograph positively floods every inch of itself with carbon materiel. ![]()
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