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Tag Heuer is going to launch a brand new Carrera Calibre 5 watch model in early autumn. The watch will come in two versions – with either a brown or black dial.

Like all Carrera timepieces, Carrera Calibre 5 watch’s dial is decorated with the Clous de Paris pattern. What distinguishes this watch from other members of the Carrera family is that the dial of the watch features twelve hand-applied hour markers instead of Roman or Arabic numerals. The markers and polished baton hands are coated with a luminescent substance for maximum readability in the dark. Another distinctive feature of this watch is that the date display window is positioned 3 o’clock, unlike other Carrera watches where the window is located at the 12 o’clock position.

The watch is powered by Calibre 5, or, in other words, the Tag Heuer branded automatic ETA 2824-2 movement, which is used in many automatic Swiss watches. The movement can be seen trough the sapphire crystal case back window. The timepiece is water-resistant to 330 ft (100 meters), which means that the wearer of the Carrera Calibre 5 watch by Tag Heuer can surf, swim or snorkel, but would better take off the watch in order to dive.
The Carrera Calibre 5 watch comes with a stainless steel bracelet with five-row link design, combining both polished and brushed surfaces. The clasp of the strap has safety push buttons in order to prevent the unintentional opening.

If you are interested in the Carrera family of Tag Heuer watches but don’t think that a watch is worth so much money, you may consider purchasing a replica Tag Heuer watch. Looking exactly as the real timepieces, Tag Heuer replicas are much cheaper but perfectly reliable.

Breguet inaugurated its exposition in the Sully Wing of the Louvre Museum on June 25. This long-expected event is an excellent publicity stunt on the part of the watchmaking company, which provides an opportunity to admire numerous watches by Breguet, both from the Louvre’s own collection and from the Breguet Museum. Among watches, clocks, measuring instruments and watch making tools, as well as portraits, archival documents and patents are items loaned from private collections and such institutions as the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris, the Kremlin Museum and the Swiss National Museum. Many of the items on view are presented to the general public for the first time. The exhibition, sub-titled ‘An Apogee of European Watchmaking’, will be held at the Louvre Museum till September 7, after which it will travel to other famous museums.

Visitors of the exhibition will discover the history of Breguet through the retrospective of the works of Abraham-Louis Breguet, France’s finest master watchmaker, whose timepieces were popular among Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette and other noblemen at the court of Versailles. One of the purchasers of the watches created by Abraham-Louis was Josephine Bonaparte to whom he sold Breguet No. 611, the small medallion “tact watch,” currently displayed at the Louvre. The fame of the watchmaker reached so high a level that in 1783 he received a commission for an extraordinary watch incorporating all the innovations and complications known at the time. This famous watch, Breguet No. 160, also called the “Marie-Antoinette,” finally developed four years after Abraham-Louis Breguet’s death, also makes part of the exhibition. Over the course of life, the Swiss-born French watchmaker invented the subscription watch, a simple watch with one hand; the tact watch, with which the wearer could tell the time by touch, and the tourbillon regulator; which compensated the effects of gravity on a watch’s works. For his outstanding inventions, Abraham-Louis Breguet was appointed Watchmaker to the Royal Navy and given a seat in the Academy of Sciences.

The exhibited timepieces are distinguished by the by functional simplicity combined with technical mastery, original style and superb craftsmanship. Flat watchcases, extremely legible and readable numerals, rectilinear hands and guilloched dials are features of extremely inventive and practical Breguet watches which make them stand out among pretentious timepieces made in the last quarter of the 18th century.

Creating modern Breguet timepieces, watchmakers of the company carry on the tradition set by its founder. If you want to become owner of one of the legendary timepieces, but do not have the opportunity, consider purchasing a replica Breguet watch which looks exactly the same, but costs much less.