Heuer introduced its last GMT chronograph circa 1984, with the Autavia Reference 11063 GMT.

At Basel 2017, when TAG Heuer first introduced its new Heuer 02 movement, in the TAG Heuer Autavia, one of the key features of the new movement was that it was designed to allow the relatively easy addition of “complications”. Now, at Basel 2018, we have TAG Heuer introducing the Carrera Chronograph GMT, with the GMT hand being the first complication to be added to the Heuer 02 movement.

On the Autavia GMTs made in the 1960s through the 1980s, the GMT hand could not be adjusted independently of the main time-of day hands. Rather, the user rotated the bezel, to select the second time zone that was being tracked. The new Carrera Chronograph GMT goes the other direction, with the bezel being fixed in position and the GMT hand being moved to set the time in the second zone.

The ceramic bezel indicates the nighttime hours in black, with the daytime hours in a deep blue. The bezel is marked for the even hours (2-4-6-8-etc.), with the odd hours (1-3-5-7-etc.) marked on one of the surfaces of the skeletonized dial. The new Carrera measures 45 millimeters across the dial, and is waterproof to 100 meters.

While traditionalists (and those who collect the vintage Autavias) may have preferred that TAG Heuer’s first GMT chronograph of the 21st century be part of the Autavia line-up, we can be happy that TAG Heuer has developed this new version of the Heuer 02 movement and hope that we will see it in an Autavia sometime soon!!

What are your impressions??

Jeff