That's OK, Speedy Tuesday reminds me of Speedy Autavia 2446.

 

It’s a bit similar but even in concept stage it looks a lot better than the Speedy. The racing box has chequered squares iso rectangles so it could be tweeked to move it away from the Speedy. Some finetuning by Ara would make this a bomb. Which vintage Heuer Carrera enthusiast wouldn’t want this one? I’m certain it would sell out. I’m keeping a spot warm.

 

Yeah but... it isn't though

It was actually inspired by the Tintin moon rocket, as seen in the post above ^ . Herge's estate (IP holders of the Tintin trademarks) didn't agree to license it though which is why they called it "racing" or some such.

EDIT: oh you mean your Carrera. Of course, but even so it does bear a very close resemblance. No matter - see if you can get Bamford to agree to it! (We have not seen the last of the Glassbox so there will still be cases manufactured...)

 

The Red Racing Carrera might also look good in the 41mm elegant case.

 

Good morning from Los Angeles.

 

Well hello there. That looks great!

 

That’s nice, I like the squares more. Now I really want one
A tad smaller subdials and it’s a slam dunk.
The double grain BoR would be a nice plus. The Auatavia bracelet is 21mm at the lugs so won’t fit unfortunately.

 

Do you own a Tintin? That Carrera around the Tintin rocket looks out of place. Seems like your model diorama is staged for a Tintin or at least some kind of Speedy.

 

I'm a Tintin fan but not that much of a Speedy fan. I think Tintin would opt for a classic 3 hander himself. Had a Speedy mark II and debated over a few others but there's always a watch that comes in between.

 

Squared up the renders for you, @Albert-AMG. Also added a "Night" version in PVD just because.

 

Me too.

 

I had the same idea at the beginning of the weekend, put a rough one together.

 

A word about squares versus rectangles: The racing dial uses rectangles that match the intervals of the seconds, so that the chrono needle can be immediately followed as it sweeps past each tick. Thus, my render matches the scale, and my vote is that the rectangles stay

 

... and also making it very difficult to read the chronograph. Thus moving us even further away from the central design ethos of the Carrera

 

I'm sorry, I don't follow why it would work for quartz but not automatic.

You see, the idea of the racing dial is not whether or not it matches the track - it's intended for higher contrast so that it makes reading the chronograph very easy even at speed:



The Tintin iterated on this but had the hash marks in each bloc:



Racing tracks on chronographs were not intended simply to look nice - this was an innovation with a purpose. And since the heritage of Heuer is most strongly associated with racing, I think we should use the checkered-flag motif in service of that.

 

These are good points. I like the idea of using the chequers for easy reading of the chronograph seconds iso just aesthetics. Having both won’t be possible as we’s end up with huge squares. A nod to the boxes but with rectangles works. So back to the original design. But I’m glad we’re having the discussion.