Heuer — Monaco
Monaco Steve McQueen
Produced 1969. Introduced in 1969, reference 1133 is the original square-cased Monaco, a 39mm stainless-steel watch instantly recognizable for its flat midnight-blue dial set with bright white registers and luminous-plotted applied…
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Reference1133
BrandHeuer
FamilyMonaco
Produced1969
StatusDiscontinued
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1969 — 8 min read1969: Three Finish Lines for the First Automatic ChronographZenith named it El Primero, a Swiss consortium put the crown on the left, and Seiko sold a 6139 in Japan while the others were still pouring coffee for journalists. Collectors have been picking a winner ever since.
Watches in movies — 9 min readMurph, Willard and the Watches That Did Some of the ActingBond already has a story. This is everyone else: a Hamilton through a black hole, a Seiko upriver, McQueen's square Heuer, and the Casios that keep turning up uninvited.
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