Big watch making companies always have the traditions to design some watch models particularly to celebrate their big days of anniversary. For its 150th anniversary, TAG Heuer brings to commercial reality its boldest breakthrough creation since the 1/100th of a second mechanical chronograph.The first advanced integrated mechanical movement of the third millennium the TAG Heuer Monaco V4 stands for a complete break with convention and the audacious next step in mechanical movement engineering. First showed as a Concept Watch at BaselWorld in 2004, The Monaco V4 is currently industrialized and thoroughly hand manufactured in TAG Heuer La Chaux-de-Fonds workshop in an exceptional luxury edition of only 150 sets in platinum.

TAG Heuer and the MONACO V4: Revolutionizing the basic principles of mechanical watchmaking

Transmission: Gear transmission and automatic rewinding: the V4 team set these "classic" watch making components aside and began from scratch. The result is a thorough paradigm-shift, 2 worldwide patents, and an entirely new generation of mechanical movements.

Energy: The Monaco V4 is the world's first wristwatch with a linear mass, armed on the world's smallest ball bearings.

The Monaco V4's avant-garde look outside fits the revolutionary movement inside. The stylish strap is in large-scale alligator, hand-stitched with a titanium insert. The general design is breathtakingly new, different from anything ever seen, however, the influence of Steve McQueen's square-faced Monaco is apparent at a quick glance as is the spirit and DNA.

The techniques employed in the design, prototyping and production of the V4 are the same as those applied to develop complicated aerospace systems. Today, the Monaco V4 are hand-assembled at TAG Heuer by "Meilleur Ouvrier de France" timepiece master Denis Badin, thus bringing the model full circle: from the most cutting-edge techniques of the present period to the most time-honored conventions of artisanal craftsmanship. Those replica watches model bears fully the wonderfully crafted watch designing ideas and concepts fully and impressively, surely it will find its own place among the counterparts.