This year marks an important milestone for TAG Heuer, albeit one that so far has gone unrecognised and unnoticed by the entire watch world: 2016 is the 30th anniversary of TAG Heuer. The brand’s origins of course stretch back to 1860, and for the first 125 years the watches and timers produced by the company carried the famous “Heuer” name. The reason for the… Read More
POSTED 22 Apr 2016
Monaco (TAG Heuer)
TAG Heuer reintroduced the Monaco in 1997 as part of its re-edition collection. The CS2110 was a huge success and inspired TAG Heuer to make the Monaco part of the mainstream TAG Heuer range, rather than just as a Heuer retro novelty. The Monaco range expanded over the years to include a smaller, more modern case design, as well as inspiring bold new watches such as the Monaco V4.
Going forward the Monaco collection will be reduced to a single model, the McQueen inspired blue-dial with the white registers and the famous Calibre 11 movement.
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In Depth Review- 2015 TAG Heuer Monaco Calibre 12 Boutique Edition
Over the last few years the TAG Heuer’s Monaco family tree has branched off into two distinct directions. On the one hand, we have heritage-themed models that remain faithful to the look and feel of the 70s original, such as the 2015 TAG Heuer Monaco Calibre 11 we showed you a few weeks ago- perfect for the traditionalist. But for those… Read More
POSTED 24 Jun 2015
First Look: Heuer Monaco Calibre 11 “McQueen” Chronograph
Contrary to popular opinion, TAG Heuer’s revived Monaco CS2110 in 1997 was not a true re-edition. Yes, it was the first time since the mid-1970s that the square Monaco was part of the TAG Heuer range, but rather than reproducing a facsimile of a specific historic Monaco model, TAG Heuer instead chose to develop a new dial design for the… Read More
POSTED 17 May 2015
TAG Heuer Monaco V4 Phantom Carbon Matrix Composite (CMC)
TAG Heuer has applied the Carbon Matrix Composite (CMC) technology first developed in 2013 to one of its iconic watches with this new model- the 2015 TAG Heuer Monaco V4 Phantom. Since the arrival of Jean-Claude Biver as CEO in December 2014, TAG Heuer’s haute horlogerie range has been scaled back significantly and there were rumours that it would be scrapped… Read More
POSTED 22 Mar 2015
First Look: 2014 Monaco Calibre 12 Boutique Edition
As regular readers will know, TAG Heuer has in recent years stepped up the number of models sold exclusively through their boutiques. And today we have the newest member of that family, the 2014 TAG Heuer Monaco Calibre 12 Boutique Edition. The key with these watches is to understand that they are typically a “twist” on an existing model, rather… Read More
POSTED 22 Sep 2014
TAG Heuer Monaco Calibre 6 Full Black
You might be tempted to dismiss the new TAG Heuer Monaco Calibre 6 Full Black as simply being a new variation on a watch that is getting close to its 10th birthday. Nothing exciting there. But we’re going to present the case that the very fact that there is a 2014 version of the Monaco watch in itself is an… Read More
POSTED 01 Jun 2014
2014 Monaco Grand Prix Photo Diary
We don’t usually cover events here at Calibre 11, but it’s worth making an exception to that rule, because the Monaco Grand Prix is an event absolutely worth a few photos. The Monaco Grand Prix is one of the highest profile events on the world sporting calendar and, it must be said, also one of the oddest, given the mix of… Read More
POSTED 28 May 2014
2014 TAG Heuer New Models- Baselworld Wrap
Given the pace of Baselworld, the sheer number of people, the many litres of bad coffee and the row upon row of shiny new watches, it can take a few days after the show for a balanced perspective to set in. In the heat of the show, it seems every model is either labelled “brilliant” or “terrible”, when of course… Read More
POSTED 16 Apr 2014
TAG Heuer Monaco V4 Tourbillon
To celebrate 10 years since the launch of the first Monaco V4 concept watch in 2004, TAG Heuer has this morning released the 2014 Monaco V4 Tourbillon- the first tourbillon driven by micro-belts, in keeping with the traditional belt-driven concept of the V4. And while the original Monaco V4 may have taken five years to get from prototype to small-scale… Read More
POSTED 27 Mar 2014
Inside TAG Heuer’s Haute Horlogerie Workshop
Only a few years ago, the concept of a haute horlogerie (a French term that in essence means “high-end watchmaking”) TAG Heuer watch was a foreign one. It was only under the leadership of Jean-Christophe Babin in the mid-2000s that the company began to reactivate watchmaking skills that had long been dormant. Starting with the Monaco V4, TAG Heuer has set… Read More
POSTED 14 Dec 2013
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