Details

Brand

Heuer

Model

Carrera

Reference

CS3113

Movement

Manually Wound Cal. 1873

Case

35 mm

Metal

Stainless Steel

Circa

2000's

Dial

Black (Tri-Compax)

Bezel

Steel

Condition

Very Good

Box/Papers

Watch Only

About this watch

Band: Black Leather Rally Strap (Generic Unworn) Clasp: Steel Pin Buckle (OEM) Glass: Plexi glass Water Resistant: 3 Bar/30 m (Splash Proof) The Heuer Carrera was designed by Jack Heuer in 1963. He named it after the Carrera Panamericana, the punishing Mexican road race of the early 1950s. Legibility was the guiding idea. The dial was kept clean and open so a driver could read it at a glance. The line was dropped in the 1980s after the TAG takeover. In 1996, TAG Heuer brought it back as the 1964 Re-Edition, a close revival of the original reference 2447. It was one of the first heritage reissues from a major brand, and the practice has since become common across the industry. This is reference CS3113, the black-dial steel version of the Re-Edition. It stays very close to the proportions of the 1960s original. That makes it an easy choice for anyone who loves the early Carrera but wants a watch from the modern era. The polished stainless steel case measures 36mm in diameter. Long faceted lugs give a lug-to-lug of approximately 44mm, with a lug width of 18mm and a depth of around 12.5mm. Piston-style chronograph pushers sit either side of the signed Heuer crown. The case was rated pressure-resistant to 3 bar (30 metres) when new. Given its age and acrylic crystal, it is best kept away from water. The matte black dial has three recessed sub-registers. There is small seconds at nine, a 30-minute counter at three, and a 12-hour counter at six. There is no date, so the layout stays perfectly balanced. Applied baton hour markers with luminous plots are paired with slender luminous hands, and the Heuer logo sits at twelve. The dial sits under a domed acrylic “top-hat” crystal. Any surface scratches can be buffed out. A slim polished steel bezel frames the…