WATCHES & TIMEPIECES
FROM THE BIG SCREEN TO REAL LIFE:
TAG HEUER UNVEILS
NEW MONACO LIMITED EDITION
AT EXCLUSIVE EVENT IN LE MANS
Engines revved this weekend in Le Mans, France, where watch In honour of the Monaco’s 50th anniversary, five limited editions will
aficionados set their sights on the latest Monaco anniversary be successively revealed throughout the year. These new models
edition. The setting for the exclusive big reveal couldn’t have been are inspired by the different decades from 1969 to 2019 and pay
more fitting – in the 1971 film Le Mans, actor and “King of Cool” tribute to a style icon now more contemporary than ever. The special
Steve McQueen sported the iconic timepiece, securing its place in collector’s editions unveiled in 2019 pay tribute to the Monaco’s
horological history. As a tribute to the Monaco’s cinematic debut, timeless design and TAG Heuer’s never-ending innovation.
guests – including Steve McQueen’s son, Chad McQueen – enjoyed a
special screening of the famous film in the place where it all began.
After the unveiling of the first model at the Monaco Grand Prix in
May, TAG Heuer was proud to reveal the next limited-edition model
Every aspect of the Monaco timepieces design was radical, and went celebrating the period from 1979 to 1989 in Le Mans, France. The first
where no other watch had ever gone before in terms of design and model took inspiration from the years 1969 to 1979 – the first decade
technology. Not only was the TAG Heuer Monaco the first ever water- of the Monaco’s history.
resistant square watch, it was also the first to feature an automatic-
winding chronograph movement.
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The Art of Luxury
Issue 39 2019