Tag Heuer - Monaco Gulf

[kevinrocker]

Hi Everyone,

Let me start off by thanking this great community for all of the information and help that everyone provides.

Recently a friend and I found RWG and began reading through the forum. We came across the Tag Heuer Monaco, and like everyone else, thought it was amazing. Although through further reading I found that there was no accurate rep of the watch, I decided to make it my first purcahse anyways due to its immense coolness.

I purchased the watch from Trusty-Time, which was a painless procedure, and recieved the watch approximatly 5 days after the order was placed.

Personally I think its pretty great for the price. The quality is terrific with a nice brushed Stainless Steel case, very clear crystal, and very cool orange stiched band. The clasp on the band is also very neat with super cool Tag engravings. The clasp mechanism itself works very well and can be adjusted for various wrist sizes.

The movement is a quartz OS20 I believe ( please correct me if I am wrong) and while it doesn't have the sophisticated smoothness of an automatic, it functions perfectly fine. The chronograph also works well with start/stop activated by the top pusher and reset activated by the bottom. One thing that did surprise me, being new to this, was the lack of a running seconds hand during regular time-keeping. But it makes sense since the chronograph doesn't have a seperate seconds sub-dial, so the second hand only runs during chronograph operation.

Overall its pretty sweet; cool case, colourful dial and band, and very well put together. I'm deffinitly happy with this purchase and being a university student the price was right.

My future purchases will definitely be some of the recommended watches from the site, so I'll probably be asking lots of questions.

Anyway here are some pictures, I'm rubbish with a camera so please forgive me, and thanks again for all the help RWG!

EDIT: I can't seem to post the pictures right now. If anyone could let me know how to post in-line images that would be great. I do have a bunch of pictures that I will post asap, if anyone wants them sooner please just PM me.

Thanks!

Kevin

[kevinrocker]

Issue was file size... Anyways, here are some pics!

Edited August 7, 2009 by kevinrocker

[LapTime]

My favorite version of the Monaco, hands down. I was this close to buying that for my first rep as well...just couldnt bring myself to buy a Quartz version.

Nice watch...enjoy it!

[metaljesus]

The most important thing when buying a rep is that you think its absolutely awesome. Which you clearly do. So good work!

Enjoy glancing at your wrist every 2 minutes for the next 3 months After that it might go down to every 5 minutes ...

[LapTime]

Enjoy glancing at your wrist every 2 minutes for the next 3 months After that it might go down to every 5 minutes ...

Glad i'm not the only one who does this...i feel crazy sometimes....