| Quick specs TAG Heuer Carrera Ring Master Calibre 5 Muhammad Ali Price: $ 3,000 | € 2.700 Size: 43 mm Reference: WAR2A11.FC6337  |
The TAG Heuer Carrera Ring Master Calibre 5 Muhammad Ali honors the most legendary boxer of all time. Cassius Marcellus Clay, later known as Muhammad Ali (17 January 1942 – 3 June 2016). At Gleason’s Gym, Brooklyn’s legendary boxing club and Muhammad Ali’s old training ground, TAG Heuer unveiled a special edition watch to pay tribute to Muhammad Ali.
The new watch is inspired by the 1950s Ring-Master stopwatches. These had interchangeable rings for timing different sports, including boxing. For decades, heavy weight championship fights were scheduled for 15 rounds of 3 minutes each, with a break of one minute between them. Today, the rules changed to 12 rounds, to make the sport a little bit more healthy. We think. And women championship fights are ten rounds or fewer, each lasting 2 minutes.
The TAG Heuer Carrera Ring Master Calibre 5 Muhammad Ali and an original TAG Heuer Ring-Master from 1957 with interchangeable dial rings
To time boxing matches use the crown at 10 o’clock to rotate the internal red/black rotating bezel. Move the number #1 sector in front of the minute hand at the start of a fight and you can keep track of the elapsed time. The inner black/white fixed scale allows you to keep track of fights with a shorter duration (2 minutes, 15 rounds) just like in the original 1950s model.
The TAG Heuer Carrera Ring Master Calibre 5 Muhammad Ali is limited to 750 pieces. And there is one gold version
Inside the TAG Heuer Carrera Ring Master Calibre 5 Muhammad Ali is the Sellita SW200 based caliber 5. An automatic that provides 38 hours of power-reserve. The watch is limited to 750 pieces in steel, but there is also one unique gold piece. This one was auctioned during the event to benefit the Muhammad Ali Center and all of the proceeds of the sale were directed to them. The gold one was hammered at $ 88,000 and bought by Jean Claude Biver, CEO of TAG Heuer. Below the specs a clip of the TAG Heuer Carrera Ring Master Calibre 5 Muhammad Ali.
The unique TAG Heuer Carrera Ring Master Calibre 5 Muhammad Ali in solid gold with its original box
technical data TAG Heuer Carrera Ring Master Calibre 5 Muhammad Ali |
| Reference: WAR2A11.FC6337 |
| Movement: TAG Heuer calibre 5 (base Sellita SW200) | Automatic | Diameter: 26 mm / 11 ½ lignes | Frequency: 28,800 vph (4 Hz) | Jewels: 26 | Rapid date correction | Hours, minutes, seconds, date | Power-reserve: 38 hours |
| Case & dial: 43 mm | Polished steel | Polished crown with TAG Heuer shield at 3 o’clock | Crown at 10 o’clock with brilliant red lacquered line | Sapphire crystal with anti-scratch and anti-reflective coating on both sides | Engraved portrait of Muhammad Ali on the back with inscription “Tribute to Muhammad Ali” | Opaline black dial | White luminescent numerals | Rotary ring with scale showing 1-15 rounds of boxing | Faceted and polished hour and minute hands with luminescent indices | White gold colour lacquered seconds hand | White printed TAG Heuer logo at 12 o’clock and Muhammad Ali’s signature at 6 o’clock | Date window at 6 o’clock | Water-resistance: 100 meters |
| Strap: Perforated black leather with red stitching | Steel deployant buckle with safety push-buttons |
| Price TAG Heuer Carrera Ring Master Calibre 5 Muhammad Ali: $ 3,000 | € 2.700 |
| Website: www.tagheuer.com |