TAG Heuer Monaco Evergraph Chronograph Watch

In 1971, Steve McQueen wore a Monaco on his wrist through every lap of Le Mans, and the square-cased chronograph became as much a part of the film’s legend as the cars. The watch debuted in 1969 as the world’s first square, water-resistant automatic chronograph, and for more than half a century the mechanism inside stayed largely unchanged. The Monaco Evergraph changes that. Its Calibre TH80-00, developed over five years in partnership with Vaucher Manufacture Fleurier, strips out virtually all of the levers and springs that have governed chronograph design for over a century and replaces them with two flexible bistable components, one for start/stop, one for reset. Because they bend rather than slide or pivot, there are no contact surfaces to wear, meaning the push feels identical on the ten-thousandth press as the first. COSC-certified with a 70-hour power reserve, the movement sits inside a 40mm Grade 5 titanium case, its architecture visible through the transparent dial. Two versions: natural titanium with blue accents nodding to McQueen’s original 1133B, and black DLC with racing red. The mechanism is new. The icon is not.