103rdAuction
2020/11/7
Lot 191
Heuer, Swiss, "Monaco", Automatic Chronograph, Case No. 250213, Ref. 1533B, Cal. 15, 40 x 45 mm, circa 1972
A rare automatic vintage cult wristwatch with chronograph, date and original box. This is the rare variant of the automatic model with a blue dial. According to Jack Heuer, company director at the time, a total of only 4,500 of the Heuer Monaco chronographs were produced from 1969 to 1974. The watch has been revised at Tag Heuer in 2012 and bears its original Heuer case back sticker.
Case: steel, push back, Heuer buckle. Dial: blue.
The blue dial of the Heuer Monaco reference 1533 has two registers ordered asymmetrically; the subsidiary dial for the small second "floats" at 10 o’clock, the 30-minute counter is positioned at 3 o’clock. The date window at 6 o’clock has a silver frame, while the two registers are unframed. The dial features applied, polished steel indexes with black accents and red 15-minute markers. The brushed steel hand with its luminous material in a red frame and a red, central chronograph hand ensure excellent readability. The large, square steel case has linear canted lugs with the serial number and the reference number inscribed between them.
Heuer launched the Monace reference 1533 in 1972 as part of a series of automatic chronographs and as successor of the first square automatic chronograph reference 1133, which had been introduced in 1969 and represented an unmatched novel design at the time. Even today the Monaco embodies Heuer’s edgy design aesthetic like no other watch – and still no other watch truly compares to this magnificent timepiece.
A rare automatic vintage cult wristwatch with chronograph, date and original box. This is the rare variant of the automatic model with a blue dial. According to Jack Heuer, company director at the time, a total of only 4,500 of the Heuer Monaco chronographs were produced from 1969 to 1974. The watch has been revised at Tag Heuer in 2012 and bears its original Heuer case back sticker.
Case: steel, push back, Heuer buckle. Dial: blue.
The blue dial of the Heuer Monaco reference 1533 has two registers ordered asymmetrically; the subsidiary dial for the small second "floats" at 10 o’clock, the 30-minute counter is positioned at 3 o’clock. The date window at 6 o’clock has a silver frame, while the two registers are unframed. The dial features applied, polished steel indexes with black accents and red 15-minute markers. The brushed steel hand with its luminous material in a red frame and a red, central chronograph hand ensure excellent readability. The large, square steel case has linear canted lugs with the serial number and the reference number inscribed between them.
Heuer launched the Monace reference 1533 in 1972 as part of a series of automatic chronographs and as successor of the first square automatic chronograph reference 1133, which had been introduced in 1969 and represented an unmatched novel design at the time. Even today the Monaco embodies Heuer’s edgy design aesthetic like no other watch – and still no other watch truly compares to this magnificent timepiece.
estimated
8.500—12.000 €
Price realized
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