Part of TAG’s partnership with automaker Porsche, the Chronosprint doesn’t look especially quirky at first. The high quality replica watches look like handsome, sporty Carrera with a pretty familiar feel, aside from the scale around its dial that hints at some idiosyncrasy. But that changes when you hit the chronograph’s start button. Doing so, the chronograph’s seconds hand bursts forward and covers 15 seconds in the time a typical seconds hand would cover 30, slowing down as it reaches that mark. It then continues to slow in order to return to zero in a traditional 60 seconds.
It’s an unconventional way of measuring time, but it remains reasonably usable thanks to the scale that’s adjusted for the weirdness. There’s little pretense of pragmatism here, but the first ten seconds or so are perhaps easier to read than on a traditional chronograph due to their being larger. The real purpose for perfect fake TAG Heuer watches to tweak its chronograph movement in this fashion? It’s meant to mimic the motion of an speedometer as a race car accelerates. I’m sorry, but even if it’s a bit gimmicky, it’s just cool as hell: unique, technically interesting and should equally tickle the brains of car guys and watch guys.
This is all consistent with the Chronosprint released in 2023 with a white dial, and so are other elements such as its “Glassbox” UK 1:1 wholesale copy watches style and size at 42mm wide. What’s different this time is cosmetic — yes, the dial color. The brand links this choice of black to its historic Rally Master dashboard instruments used in Porsche cars in the 1965 Monte Carlo Rally. The portion of the scale highlighted in red refers to the zero-to-100km/h acceleration in 9.1 seconds of the Porsche 901 in 1963.
The Swiss made replica watches are powered by a version of the in-house TH20-00 automatic movement found in the standard Carrera collection, for the Chronosprint it’s outfitted with snail cams to achieve its eccentric animation and dubbed the TH20-08. The new cheap super clone TAG Heuer Carrera Chronosprint x Porsche Rallye comes in two versions: in steel, limited to 911 examples and in 18K 3N yellow gold, limited to only 11 examples.
