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Totally agree with this. Straight outta 1969. Super cool reference that is just as funky now as it was then.
With that said, if you’re willing to entertain vintage, there are hundreds and hundreds of lesser known chronos out there that are just as cool, if not cooler, and a fifth of the price.
Like these, courtesy of retrowatchguy.com.
JB
@Regal
IMHO the one to get from the current Monaco collection is this:
https://www.tagheuer.com/gb/en/timepieces/collections/tag-heuer-monaco/39-mm-calibre-11-automatic/CAW211P.FC6356.html
Heuer signed only, and has the original horizontal hour markers (which I much prefer). It’s basically the Steve McQueen model.
https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/fifty-years-of-monaco
They did a series of limited retro reissues in 2019 (themed around decades) which were also quite nice.
https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/tag-heuer-monaco-1969-1979-limited-edition-introducing
https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/the-tag-heuer-monaco-1979-1989-limited-edition
https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/tag-monaco-1989-1999-limited-edition-introducing
https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/the-tag-heuer-monaco-1999-2009-limited-edition
https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/tag-heuer-monaco-2009-2019-limited-edition-introducing