Mythic Tag Heuer Monaco WAW1316 – Quartz – Box and Card

Tag Heuer Monaco with reference WAW1316 with square brown dial in stainless steel. The watch has batons and diamonds for each hour and one sub dial at 6 o’clock for the seconds. The date window is at 12 o’clock. The hands are in stainless steel with baton design. It is a Swiss Made” model. The bezel comes with a bar of diamonds at 12 and 6 o’clock. The crown comes with the Heuer logo. It is a screwed back case with engraved outside “Monaco – Swiss Made since 1860 – WAW 1316 – EBD5449 -– water Resistant 100m. The watch has a quartz movement with caliber 6004.B and 5 jewels. It comes with a brown Tag Heuer strap and a stainless-steel Tag Heuer clasp. The watch comes with box and card.

History

The company was founded by Edouard Heuer in 1860 in opening a watch comptoir (dealership) in Saint Imier. In 1864, he moves to Bienne with a signed “E Heuer & Compagnie”. 1869, he applied for a patent for an “Independent crown-winding system”. In 1880, he is the first watch producer to start on the series production of chronographs. In 1910 Heuer creates the “doctor’s chronograph with pulsometer. In 1916 Heuer register a patent for the “Microsplit”. 1930, Heuer patented the design of waterproof case. 1949 comes the “Solunar” and the magic “Carrera” in 1963. 1964, Heuer merged with Leonidas S.A. Since 1999, the company is owned by the LVMH Group. In 2006, the “Carrera 360” took up the mantle of the “Microsplit”, a stopwatch accurate to 1/100th of a second.

Technical details

Quartz movement with caliber 6004.B with 5 jewels. The base caliber is Ronda 702.

Measurements

Diameter excluding winding crown: 38mm


Length including lugs: 43mm