Of all the watches launched in the auspicious year for watchmaking that was 1969, the Heuer Monaco remains the most avant-garde. Seiko’s Astron might have done the most to transform horology, but even that was perfectly conventional in its styling. Having battled to be among the first to launch an automatic chronograph, Jack Heuer was keen that the watch chosen to house the Calibre 11 would be something that stood out against its one-time collaborators, soon-to-be-competitors (Breitling and Hamilton) as well as Zenith and Seiko. Jack Heuer found a radical new case design courtesy of manufacturer Picquarez; it was also the first properly water-resistant square-cased watch on the market. What was created stood out against just about every watch on the market, and still does -but the Monaco’s best years have arguably come in the modern era. While it’s impossible to say how it would have fared had it not benefited from the huge PR coup of appearing on Steve McQueen’s wrist in the 1971 fi
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