Tag carrera weight

[tony8028]

A friend has a carrera that I have admired across the table for some time and last night I asked if I could have a look....when he handed it to me i couldn't believe how light it was. The first thing I thought of was REP!!! If it was, it was indeed a very good one with a nice AR....but the bracelet especially was very flimsy. Or, perhaps being sports watch, the gens are indeed this light?

I dont know the exact model but it was the typical carrera with the chronos and black face - lovely looking watch.

 

[shaidx]

this ?

 

[santre22]

Yes the gen are quite light special the ones before 2007-2008. And the most common is the CV2014 rep is based on the old version of the gen it have 50m on caseback new version is 100m water resist ant the new is not repped yet. Also all casebacks on this carrera says CV2014 and it's reference for black dial and red hands. So the Blue, brown and white dial versions is less correct. All also have same serial LY3487

 

[DreambreaX]

I have both rep and gen. the weight is 99% the same due to handfeel.

 

[tony8028]

thanks for the replies folks.

Based on the responses above it probably was a gen given that weight is no give-away.

i have a rep Breitling super ocean heritage rep with mesh which is MUCH a very heavy watch, so I guess the light weightiness of the tag was a surprise.