The Tag Heuer Carrera Mclaren 1974 Edition is a limited edition piece of 1974 units and is to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Mclaren’s first world title from Brazilian born Emerson Fittipaldi in 1974.
In 1974, Brazilian Emerson Fittipaldi won the first of his two World Championships for McLaren. The team was founded in 1963 which made debuted later on in 1966. The team would win several races in the previous years with drivers Bruce McLaren plus Kiwi Denny Hulme, but Mclaren’s true success for the team proved elusive until the 1970s with Emerson Fittipaldi winning in 1974 after Bruce’s death.
The team was led by Teddy Mayer, they hired young Brazilian Emerson Fittipaldi for the 1974 season which World Championship win was the first for the Mclaren team. This becoming such big milestone for Mclaren hence the Tag Heuer 40th anniversary watch a homage to Mclaren 40 years after the win , The new TAG Heuer Carrera watch was launched for the 2014 Festival of Speed to pay homage to this 4oth anniversary.
Tag Heuer are the official timing sponsors for the Goodwood festival which they began to do so in 2011 and means plenty of watches to mark the event in the future years not like Tag Heuer need and event to design a new watch.
The watch is striking piece 43mm case size, Panda dial. white dial black sub dials, with a few nice orange bits to complement the watch with a stunning ceramic bezel on a tyre thread rubber strap. This is a very distinct piece out of the Carrera range and is sure to be a future collectors piece going on recent success on being collectible Panda Dials do really well!!
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Tag Heuer Carrera Mclaren 1974 Edition CAR2A12
