TAG Heuer Unveils Titanium Split-Seconds Chronographs For 55th Monaco Anniversary
TAG Heuer celebrates 55 years of the Monaco collection with two new Split-Seconds Chronograph models with a Titanium case and a skeletonized dial in red or blue.
The split-seconds, also known as Rattrapante, is a complication that allows two separate time intervals to be measured simultaneously, a complication that has been present in several of the brand’s references for more than a century, first gaining prominence in 1916 at the Olympic Games and later in the 60s in motorsport.
The new Monaco’s wear a typical square case measuring 41mm wide, 15.20mm high and 47.90mm lug-to-lug distance in Grade 5 Titanium whose material also extends to the movement’s various components and which makes the case weigh just 85g, sapphire glass on both sides, crown at 3 o’clock flanked by two rectangular pushers, while on the left side of the case we find an extra pusher with guards and 30m of water resistance.
On the dial we can find Titanium arches, a circular minute track with red hour markers and lumed-tips, rhodium-plated semi-skeletonized hour and minute hands filled with Super-LumiNova and red tips, three registers at 3-6-9 hours formed by a 25-minute counter, a running seconds and a 12-hour register and finally two central hands, one for the chronograph and the other for split-seconds.
The red version comes with a case with a Black DLC brushed finish on the outside to match the tone of the dial’s arches, where we can find two black registers at 3-9 o’clock and a red split-seconds hand in the same tone as the other two hands assigned to the chronograph.
In the blue variant, the dial’s arcs are presented in gradient blue whose tone also extends to the split-seconds hand and two white counters assigned to the chronograph and which come with blue hands.
Inside runs the high-frequency Caliber TH81-00 automatic movement, reaching 36,000 Vph and offering between 55 and 65 hours of power reserve, which can be admired through the open rear case highlighting the skeletonized rotor in the shape of the brand’s crest.
The new Monacos arrived attached to a calfskin strap with a textile pattern in the colour of the dial from June 2024 for the price. €166,000.
