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I’m baffled by the outer scale - what is it indicating?

Sep 07, 2023,15:38 PM

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New Carrera Chronosprint x Porsche

By: India Whiskey Charlie : September 7th, 2023-14:49

Once again, TAG Heuer and Porsche join forces to create a new Carrera iteration, this time it's the TAG Heuer Carrera Chronosprint x Porsche . 42 mm x 14,9 mm case... ...

Once again... a watch brand needs an association with another brand to generate emotion for their products

By: VinnieD : September 7th, 2023-15:19

I once fell into the Girard Perregaux x Ferrari trap (I was young and innocent) but I won't fall a second time! The watch is not bad, but it could stand on its own two feet

I’m baffled by the outer scale - what is it indicating?

By: cazalea : September 7th, 2023-15:38

Complete marketing nonsense

By: Arronax : September 7th, 2023-16:08

Just read about it and it's so silly I could barely believe it, you have to find out for yourself!

That's probably why I didn't

By: Gwai : September 7th, 2023-16:17

understand what I was reading... Cheers Marc

They enlarge the elapsed seconds scale so it is easier to read a 0-60 time. They achieve this by advancing the second hand in a non linear rate.

By: myles721 : September 7th, 2023-16:28

Just as the car went from 0 to 100km/h in just 9.1 seconds, so does our second hand. It takes 9.1 seconds to cover the red portion of the dial and recreate that feeling of exhilaration evoked by the acceleration time of the first Porsche 911.

By: cazalea : September 7th, 2023-17:09

I’m going to be sick…

Just explaining it…

By: myles721 : September 7th, 2023-20:50

not endorsing it 🥹

That "911" embossing on the strap is the worse part!

By: patrick_y : September 7th, 2023-17:22

Don't get me wrong, I like Porsches. But that embossing on the strap is so cheesy, childish, the watch is better without it!

It is quite a crazy way of displaying the measure of the seconds with a second hand starting fast and then slowing down to speed up again after the noon position. Totally useless but a nice gimmick.

By: hora12reborn : September 7th, 2023-19:46

Can't they do it a tad smaller, slimmer and without date?

By: amanico : September 7th, 2023-21:27

I actually saw the steel version in the flesh two weeks ago in a boutique that had received a unit ahead of the launch. I found the watch visually very appealling

By: Chronometer (aka yacomino) : September 8th, 2023-00:17