TAG Heuer just brought back its best Japanese racing collab
TAG Heuer has released a new limited-edition Carrera watch in collaboration with Team Ikuzawa and Bamford Watch Department. The design is inspired by vintage Heuer Roadmaster stopwatches and features a 39mm Glassbox case with a unique white dial.
Why it matters
This release highlights the growing trend of luxury watch brands leveraging niche motorsport heritage and design collaborations to appeal to collectors.
TAG Heuer just announced the second Carrera collaboration with Team Ikuzawa and Bamford Watch Department, three years after their first one together - and this time, they went back to a stopwatch.
The watch is built on TAG Heuer's 39mm Carrera Glassbox , the modern take on the original 1963 Carrera that swaps a bezel for a highly domed sapphire crystal. But the design here pulls specifically from the Heuer Roadmaster, a vintage timing stopwatch Team Ikuzawa used trackside through the '70s and '80s, not from any particular car or race.
The dial is white with a Clou de Paris texture (a pyramid-stud pattern that resembles knurling on a barbell). It also has printed indexes for a graphic, stopwatch-like read, and red accents everywhere - hands, chronograph seconds, date wheel.
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