You simply cannot trace the history of Japanese streetwear culture without talking about Fragment. For nearly 30 years, Hiroshi Fujiwara’s label has been putting its minimalist designs on clothing, sneakers, watches, and other gear without demanding much in the way of co-branding.
For its latest outing with Swiss luxury watchmaker TAG Heuer, Fragment is taking on the recent Glassbox evolution of their flagship Carrera Chronograph, and it’s never looked better.
A Return to the Carrera
This marks the third chapter between these two since 2018, but it’s the first time Fujiwara has worked with TAG Heuer’s Glassbox architecture. The original collaboration stripped back the Carrera to its monochrome essentials, while the 2020 Formula 1 partnership leaned into high-contrast graphics. Now, returning to the chronograph once again, Fragment brings its signature aesthetic to TAG Heuer’s most contemporary Carrera design language.
The Glassbox itself is a modern reinterpretation of those domed acrylic crystals from the 1960s, now executed in sapphire. Without a bezel, the crystal reaches all the way to the case edge, creating interesting distortions and magnification effects that make the dial feel more three-dimensional.
Monochrome Discipline
The 39mm steel case houses a matte black opaline dial that plays beautifully against a white curved flange. All the markings (subdials, hour plots, tachymeter scale) are finished in silver or grey, creating a understated palette that really accentuates the design. Fragment’s influence is most blatant in the date disc, where lightning bolts replace the numerals on the 1st and 11th. The lightning also appears on the sapphire caseback, printed above the modified rotor.
The subdials have been stripped of their numerals entirely, relying only on dash markers. Hour indices are reduced to small rectangular plots of grey Super-LumiNova. Even the tachymeter scale gets muted with lighter grey numerals. It’s all very Fragment; take away everything that isn’t essential, then refine what’s left.
Lastly, the seven-row “beads-of-rice” bracelet, reintroduced earlier this year, gets black PVD on the center links.
Built for Performance
Inside is TAG Heuer’s in-house TH20-00 movement, a column-wheel chronograph with vertical clutch. Boasting 80-hour power reserve and five-year warranty, the movement’s shield-shaped rotor with black graphic detailing adds Fragment’s visual language to the mechanics. Like previous models, this version is also water resistant to 100m.
Spec Sheet
Model: TAG Heuer Carrera Chronograph x Fragment Limited Edition
Case Size: 39mm
Case Thickness 13.9mm
Case Material: Stainless steel
Movement: In-house Calibre TH20-00 automatic chronograph
Dial: Black opaline with white flange, silver tachymeter scale
Water Resistance: 100m
Lume: Grey Super-LumiNova
Bracelet: Seven-row steel with black PVD center links
Limited Edition: 500
Pricing & Availability
Limited to 500 pieces, the TAG Heuer Carrera Chronograph x Fragment Limited Edition releases will be available for pre-order December 3 for $9,050.
Recap
TAG Heuer Carrera Chronograph Glassbox x Fragment Limited Edition
Fragment’s third collaboration with TAG Heuer strips the Carrera Chronograph Glassbox down to its monochrome essentials — black opaline dial, white flange, and those lightning bolt logos integrated into the date disc.
