Hey, welcome back to Jaztime. Jaztime.com is an online store that buys, sell and trades authentic luxury watches. We make these videos so you can easily choose the best watch for yourself in the comfort of your own home. We offer the lowest prices anywhere online. And if you like to know the price, simply click on the links in a description below. We greatly appreciate if you purchase your next watch from must at Jaztime.com. Today we'll be taking a look at this Tag Heuer Carrera. This one a discontinued model, the reference number CAR2A11.BA0799. That basically means that this one is with the gray dial, sunburst finish as you can see, applied numbers all in minutes or seconds. And also with a date window sapphire crystal with the ceramic tachymetre bezel all stainless steel construction with the stainless steel bracelet, of course. So I'll be going over all of the aspects of this watch, the case, the bezel, dial, crown functions as well as the movement and the bracelet. And I'll be giving you my thoughts these throughout this video. So starting off with the case between the two and eight o'clock positions, you have 43 millimeters. That's the same as what you get from the 10 to 4 o'clock positions. Basically from the pusher to the opposite side of the case minus of pusher itself. So, that distance 43 millimeters all the way across. You have a full satin brush, or sorry high polish construction to this case including all the buttons there on the chronograph sides. And the nine o'clock side of the case, nice high polish as well. The entire casing itself and high polish. So it gives it that very interesting and very beautiful, highly reflective luster to it. Tiny little bit of a sink into the integrated bracelet here that you can see on the six o'clock side, same as with the 12 o'clock side. Really sort of pulling it inward, sort of giving it that dynamic feel to it. There's also the tachymetric bezel, again, in ceramic all black here. So it's nice and scratch resistant. Same as with the sapphire crystal on the very front, nicely domed. And giving the watch a thickness of over 16 millimeters, I believe 16 and a half millimeters in thickness. So, quite a sports watch for the wrist. Again with the 43 millimeter case size makes it a very big watch on the wrist. As you saw on my wrist earlier, pretty big. The dial itself, a satin brush, sort of a gear shade pattern to it giving it that sun burst or sun ray look to it, depending on how it plays in the light there. And they just call this a gray color. It's sort of like anthracite or even slate, or maybe even a rodium sort of gray. Quite very interesting gray, very shaded, certainly on the darker side. Not entirely all that light unless you look at the highlights, of course, on the very front. Again, there are no actual hour markers but only markers for the minutes and seconds. And it gives it that sort of a, almost like a racing dial or like a speedometer actually, in the way that it's presented here. And even though you have have all of these set up, you also have the chronograph features. 30 minutes at the 12 o'clock position, 12 hours at the 6 o'clock position. And sort of encased in a silver sub dial outboard with that, and also sort of like a concentric lighter gray, mid tone gray to the sub dials. Giving it a sort of a higher pop making these pretty much at the top of a visual hierarchy scale. So that basically you see these first. This is definitely a chronograph time piece. Small seconds at the nine o'clock position, constantly going as well. Nicely and high polished on that hand as well. Same with the minute and hour hands, and the red tipped chronograph hand lance style. If I turn out the lights here, you can see that there's a little bit of luminescence not a whole lot. Well, basically it's only on the hands themselves. So, you're not gonna get too much in terms of that but it's there if you need it. All right, turn your the lights back on and taking a look here at the functionality of this watch. At the base position, the crown will allow you to wind the watch. So just slip it off your wrist, give it a good wind, less between 40 and 50 hours, depending on how you run the watch. So, rather simple there. From a dead stop about 20 or 30 full winds gets you to the full power reserve. Pull the crown to the next position or to the first position, out of the first position to the second position. You can actually advance that date forward by one. It's about a quarter turn. And it's a nice click as well. Feels very good as you advance the date forward and nothing too much there. It's at three o'clock position within that small aperture. White background with black text, very easy to read. Pull the crown out to the final position. Note that the seconds hand does in fact stop and same as the chronograph hand as well, if you were to keep it running. So this allows you to set the time precisely based on the position of that small seconds hand. So, you can just place the mid hand wherever it needs to go, wait for it to synchronize up to in timer clock and just press it back in. All of this allows you a 100 meter water resistant watch. So certainly one that you can take, surface swimming, maybe a little shallow diving, nothing too extreme there. The chronograph pushers, nothing too different there, simply press the top one with the red lacquer inlay there. It starts up that chronograph hand, sort of ticks along not entirely the smoothest of all Carreras but it still fulfills its duty within accuracy of an eighth of a second. Once you have the watch wound up to its full capacity, it'll travel much more smoothly. Press again to stop it. No weird movements, no weird jumps or stutters. It finishes cleanly. All right, so even though it doesn't look like it, it runs extremely smoothly. Stop it and press the pusher at the four o'clock position to reset it as well as the sub dials. So that you can always have a fresh start should you so desire. No flyback chronograph here, not that you really absolutely need it. What makes all of this work on the inside? It is the movement as written on the front of the dial, the caliber 1887. Let me pull up my notes here. So, it's a 29.3 millimeter in diameter movement in there, about 39 jewels. No, not about, it is exactly 39 jewels. I believe 13 and a half lines, I believe. Whatever, it has a balanced frequency of 28,800 vibrations per hour or 4 Hertz. So you do have that added sense of precision when you're actually engaging the chronograph there. It also has the hours, minutes and small seconds at the nine o'clock, chronograph minutes at the 12 o'clock, chronograph hours at the six o'clock. Date, again, at the three o'clock position there. You also have Cotes de Geneve on that winding rotor, basically providing you everything that you require from an open case back. The exhibition case back here showing off all the insides, incredibly beautiful as well. You also have all of the engravings in there to show you that it is certainly a Tag Heuer movement. And also the power reserve between 40 and 50 hours. If you keep the chronograph running 40 hours with it, disengaged and off it will be 50 hours. So keep that in mind. Although the vertical clutch does allow you to run it as a constant seconds hand, should you so desire, without any wear on the movement. It'll just run down the power reserve just about by 10 hours but even then, setting it down Friday evening, you can just pick it back up Sunday afternoon. Give it a low quick wind for a little bit if you have the chronograph running. If you just leave the chronograph off over the weekend, well, you don't even need to wind it. Just pick it up Monday, put it on your wrist. And the natural movements of your wrist keeps that winding rotor spinning and winding the main spring barrel, allowing you to charge the power reserve. Rather simple there. Good from automatic movements there from Tag Heuer. Now, while I'm zoomed out here, you can see that the links here are H shaped, with sort of like an alternating high polish and satin brush finish down the center, all satin brush on the outer links there, high polish on their sides. There's a general tapered down to the folding clasp here. Tag Heuer logo there, the full lockup of the logo there with the double push button system. And if you actually press both of them in, open it up, you can actually see on the inside. You cannot actually open this by simply pulling it or just pressing one button in. You have to press both buttons in, in order to disengage that lock. It's incredibly secure actually, and even with the pin and sleeve system for sizing, incredibly secure. I've tried to size one of these myself, it's not easy to accidentally push one of these out. You actually have to use plenty of force. Well, I wouldn't say force, it has to be a very robust and very deliberate movement to move these pins and sleeves. So, good from Tag Heuer there. While I'm here, I'll also try it again on my wrist. Seven inches in circumference. So, taking a look at it here again on my wrist. Straight on, 43 millimeters is the case size. Seven inches, my wrist, 16 and a half inches of thickness. It's a big boy, a big chunker. And so I can't recommend this to anyone who's wrist is even smaller than mine. Unless you're absolutely going for massive, absolutely huge wrist presence. Then, certain, no one's gonna stop you there. But if you want it to fit on your wrist and balance nicely, this thing wobbles quite a bit because it's quite top heavy for me. If you have a larger wrist, you have the full set of the bracelet here gripping onto you, then it's not gonna go anywhere. It'll actually fit quite nicely. It won't be so top heavy for you. But for me, quite big. And it has that sort of sense of wrist presence. It's a bit subtle when it comes to the dial color because that really darker set of gray, the shades of gray that you can see in the style don't stand out quite as much, as the chronograph functions there. So, even from a distance, you can see see the chronograph features there. And people will know certainly what you're in for, and what you're here for. Looking at it straight down the wrist, the lugs, very distinctly Carrera. They don't dig into the wrist so much as they just simply rest, and leave a very solid anchor point. Very sharp on the edges there but you won't actually get punished. It won't actually puncture your wrist, even for flatter wrist, mine is a little bit more around. But, just keep that in mind, if your wrist is smaller than this you do run the risk of having these lugs sort of protrude beyond the bounds of your wrist. So, certainly for someone with a larger wrist than mine. The bracelet here, again, all steel bracelet. Sort of my preference when it comes to bracelets or straps in general. Zero tolerance among these lengths. Again, the pin sleeve system don't allow for weird wobbling. So it actually will never pinch your wrist, it won't pull hairs out. It feels very comfortable, wicks sweat. And, so you can basically wear this all day without any discomfort. And looking at it again straight on, quite beautiful watch actually, a bit understated but no less than what it actually is. It's an excellent chronograph watch. A little bit deeper into the Tag Heuer catalog, sort of not the introductory watch. But if you wanna jump in and this is probably your first watch. If it is your first watch, this is going quite in deep into the chronograph world. Because it doesn't have the day and the date. It doesn't have all of the features that you would want for an all rounder watch. This is more, a little bit more specialized, not too specialized, like say a Rolex Daytona, but certainly gives you everything that you would ever need from your first time piece. Or, if you're just filling in a hole in your collection or just wanna wear something that gives you a little bit more statement on the wrist, this one is for you. But enough of what I think, what do you guys think about at the watch? Let us know down on the comments below, what you think about this Tag Heuer Carrera. The reference number to this one, Or sorry, .BA0799. CR2A11, sorry. .BA0799. 43 millimeters, 16 and a half millimeters thick. Let us know what you think down in the comments below. Be sure to like this video. Subscribe if you haven't already and hit the bell notification so you can be notified when we go live with another video like this one. 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