From JustLuxe contented spouse iW Magazine
TAG Heuer re-affirms its adjacent transportation to motorsports with the caller Monaco Chronograph Racing Blue Limited Edition, a caller variation of the famed quadrate racing chronograph boasting a dial accented successful a peculiarly French shadiness of blue.
The caller TAG Heuer Monaco Chronograph Racing Blue Limited Edition.
The item colour of the caller Monaco chronograph exemplary is meant to callback the aboriginal days of automotive racing erstwhile cars were distinguished by their nationalist colors alternatively than the colors of a shaper oregon sponsor. TAG Heuer’s caller Monaco Chronograph Racing Blue besides references the hues of automotive brands similar Talbot-Lago, Delage, and Bugatti.
Thus, TAG Heuer designers colored the sub-dials and strap connected the caller ticker with bluish tones, 12 bluish markers, and rhodium-plated hr and infinitesimal hands with bluish SuperLumiNova.
This colour strategy nicely matches the silvered sunray brushed dial said to callback the engine-turned dashboards of sports cars successful the 1920s and 1930s. A hard-to-miss yellowish stripe announces the chronograph cardinal manus and the faceted baton marker astatine 12 o’clock.
Inside the 39mm titanium lawsuit TAG Heuer fits its modernized automatic Calibre 11 chronograph movement, which is disposable done the wide sapphire lawsuit back.
The watchmaker decorates the backmost of the ticker with a “One of 1000” engraving that details the fig of watches disposable successful this TAG Heuer Monaco Chronograph Racing Blue Limited Edition series.
TAG Heuer supplies a perforated blue calfskin strap with the watch. It’s linked to the wrist with a titanium folding clasp decorated with an engraved Heuer logo.
Price: $9,200.
Specifications: TAG Heuer Monaco Chronograph Racing Blue (CAW218C.FC6548, a constricted variation of 1,000)
Movement: TAG Heuer Calibre 11 Automatic (Sellita base) powering hours, minutes, seconds, date, and chronograph.
Dial: Silver sunray brushed with 2 bluish opaline counters, angled date, rhodium-plated, polished applied indexes, rhodium-plated hr and infinitesimal hands with bluish SuperLumiNova, lime yellowish lacquered cardinal hand, achromatic HEUER printed logo.
Case: 39mm people 2 titanium sandblasted, beveled, domed sapphire crystal, titanium crown, sapphire lawsuit back, h2o absorption to 100 meters.
Bracelet: Blue perforated calfskin strap with people 2 titanium folding clasp with treble information pushbuttons.
Price: $9,200.