TITANIUM HEART
With this dynamic duo of titanium watches, the Le Locle-based watch brand takes the fundamentals of its success – precision, innovation and timekeeping – and propels them into the modern era.
When he joined the family business in 1958, Jack Heuer infused it with the enthusiasm of youth, the recklessness of a circuit-racing lover, and the determination to create modern products while keeping with the fundamental values that had been present since the beginning of the 20th century: precision, innovation and impeccable timekeeping. After the Autavia watch in 1962 and the Carrera the following year, the Monaco was born in 1969. Inspired by the eponymous Grand Prix, in 2024 it inherits the pillars of TAG Heuer‘s reputation, which it infuses into two new Monaco Split-Seconds Chronograph timepieces, produced in a dynamic red version and the brand’s signature blue.
This launch marks the birth of an automatic movement, the high-frequency (5hz) TH81-00 caliber, wound by an oscillating weight cut in the shape of the TAG Heuer coat-of-arms and, like the famous square case, made entirely of titanium. This powerful engine is equipped with a split-seconds chronograph, enabling two time measurements, and delivers a power reserve of 55 to 65 hours. The sapphire crystal dial features two DLC-blackened arches, two counters at 3 and 9 o’clock, and a small seconds at 6 o’clock. Two large, two-tone, luminescent baton-type central hands indicate the current hours and minutes, accompanied by a duo of second hands, one rhodium-plated to display chronograph seconds and the other vermilion-lacquered for the split-seconds function controlled by a pusher on the left flank of this Monaco Split-Seconds Chronograph.
