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Introducing the Monaco 1969-1979 Limited Edition
A square, angular, shaped wrist watch the likes of the Monaco had never been seen prior to its introduction. Add to this the fact that the case was made such that the chronograph was water-resistant and that it housed the revolutionary new self-winding Calibre 11. Calibre 11 is what Heuer (TAG was not yet part of the company name at the time) called the movement, but it might be better known to some as the Chronomatic, which was the self-winding chronograph that came from the consortium formed by Breitling, Buren, Hamilton, Heuer and Dubois-Depraz.
The Monaco’s ultimate claim to fame came when brand ambassador and racing driver Jo Siffert was seen wearing the watch, and then later on the silver screen on the wrist of the king of cool, Steve McQueen in the movie Le Mans.
Called the Monaco 1969-1979 Limited Edition, the watch comes in the classical Monaco case in stainless steel with a green dial that’s decorated with vertical Côtes de Genève. The colors of all the five pieces will take inspiration from the decade of the 1970s. The subsidiary dials are sunray black gold plated with brown and yellow accents used to finish off the hands and indexes.
TAG Heuer will produce only 169 pieces of the Monaco 1969-1979 Limited Edition, which will reach their happy owners in a specially designed presentation case, to fit the commemorative time piece.
Movement
Self-winding TAG Heuer Calibre 11, hours, minuets and small running seconds; chronograph with 30-minute totalizer; 40-hour power reserve
Case
39mm stainless steel case; water-resistant to 100m
Strap
Brown calfskin leather strap, polished folding clasp in stainless steel[/td_block_text_with_title]