The two-tone Carrera, on alligator.

The Carrera is Heuer’s racing chronograph of 1963, designed by Jack Heuer for drivers who needed to read a chronograph at a glance: a clean dial, big counters and the minute track pushed out to the flange so nothing gets in the way. TAG Heuer has made it in every size and movement since, and the current line splits into the 44mm sport chronographs with the tachymeter bezel and the smaller glassbox watches that look back at the 1960s.

The CBN2A5A puts 18k 5N rose gold on the parts of the Carrera you touch and see: the ring that holds the ceramic bezel, the crown, the pushers, and on the dial the hands and markers. The case body stays steel, which keeps the price where it is, and the alligator strap turns the racing chronograph into something for a jacket. The movement is the same TH20-00 as the steel watches, column wheel and 80 hours included.

This is a regular Amazon listing from a marketplace seller with Amazon’s 30-day return window; it is not a Luxury Stores pre-owned unit and the seller has not published a condition. The second button opens the live search for Carreras in case this one has sold.

Carreras have resold for under new and close to what pre-owned buyers paid, sometimes more, sometimes less; that is a pattern, not a promise, and nothing here is investment advice.