Over time, layers of paint build up on mounting equipment and needs to be removed. Personalisation expert and TAG Heuer partner, Bamford Watch Department (BWD), and the designer Black Badger have collaborated on a set of exclusive TAG Heuer Carrera Calibre 5 watches featuring dials made from Fordite, a polymerised composite with a unique striated appearance formed by hardened layers of car paint.įordite hails from Ford automobile plants in Michigan, USA, and is essentially the paint colour - primer, paint, topcoat - that’s sprayed onto car components, from doors to bodies. There are subtle variations across the line, for legibility – rhodium-plated indices on the red version, black indices on the green and yellow, for example.Īll three versions come on complimentary coloured rubber straps, plus the motif of a chequered race flag on their casebooks.Partnerships between car and watch brands are a well-trodden - or rather, well–driven - territory, but one pioneering watch house is giving this longstanding synergy a unique twist. The new chronographs come in 43mm cases with PVD steel tachymeter bezels and stainless steel pushers at 2 o’clock and 4 o’clock. This year has seen brands launching dial colours across the spectrum, including ice-blue (Grand Seiko, Rolex), mint-green (Breitling) and concentric rainbow (Bell & Ross). The new F1 models could also been seen as part of a broader trend for playful colour in men’s watches.

Since the appointment of the then-25-year-old CEO Frédéric Arnault in 2020, it has collaborated with Nintendo on a Super Mario version of its Connected smartwatch, led the way in luxury’s turn towards lab-grown diamonds with its Carrera Plasma Diamant d’Avant-Garde edition, allowed crypto payments and enabled its latest Connected Calibre E4 model to display NFTs.

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