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New Post: TAG Heuer Monaco 50th Anniversary Watch 3: 1989-99 Limited Edition
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Mspeedster
·I think it’s awesome, definitely happy with it. My only negative, and I’m sure it’s the same for all of them, but the box is sub-par and put bluntly rubbish. I’m not a box fanatic, but they could have spent a fiver on it and doubled its quality.
Yes, I messaged my AD weeks ago about it - the book was in long before the 50s.
My F1 Gulf came in the same box, as did the Monaco Gulf "First Win 50th" LE. But the Gulf boxes are covered in a pseudo leather like covering with orange stitching. So those boxes feel a little more substantial compared to the Monaco 50 box.
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Jim Dollares
·Can we get some photos of the boxes please
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Mspeedster
·Can we get some photos of the boxes please
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·For comparison, here's some pics of my F1 Gulf's box.
Which is basically the same box used for the Monaco 50's, but with different covering.
Which is basically the same box used for the Monaco 50's, but with different covering.
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·Here you go. The box has a thick, papery, textured finished covering. I guess this gives it a more cardboard like feeling compared to the Gulf's box and its certainly cheaper when compared to the nice wooden box of the 40th anniversary Monaco.
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Aquagraph
·I got a similar box with my WAY208C Aquaracer and I thought it was a step up from the old brown ones...
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·I got a similar box with my WAY208C Aquaracer and I thought it was a step up from the old brown ones...
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Pitfitter446
·This talk of boxes made me look at what my other watches came in, so here’s the MB though still not wood or anything special it’s quite substantial
As is the manual
As is the manual
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Mspeedster
·I got a similar box with my WAY208C Aquaracer and I thought it was a step up from the old brown ones...
Could be like you said that they wanted to recreate the feeling of the original boxes 👎 seems odd otherwise that an F1 comes with a more premium box...
I think TAG is using this smaller rectangular box (as opposed to the square one) for many of their new watches now. The differences are the materials & design used to wrap the box on the outside, material used on the inside, colors and logos etc.
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·On a side note, I just pulled my Monaco Gulf Grey's box (circa 2010) to have a re-look at the box. It has a nice soft touch vinyl-like finish on the box. However, it has a small section that looks a little worn. Odd, as that box has been in storage for close to 8-9 years and never touched until now! I suppose it's due to age, heat & humidity. Some of my older TAG boxes (actually these were round containers) from the '90s with soft touch finishes have deteriorated even worse, as the finish is peeling off.
So on the plus side, my hunch (hope) is that the Monaco 50's box might stand the test of time better when compared to the leatherette or soft touch type of finishes used on some of TAG's other boxes. Still, a wooden box like the 50th's 1 of 50 box set or the 40th anniversary's box would have been more fitting for these individual Monaco 50's.
So on the plus side, my hunch (hope) is that the Monaco 50's box might stand the test of time better when compared to the leatherette or soft touch type of finishes used on some of TAG's other boxes. Still, a wooden box like the 50th's 1 of 50 box set or the 40th anniversary's box would have been more fitting for these individual Monaco 50's.
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abrod520
·On a side note, I just pulled my Monaco Gulf Grey's box (circa 2010) to have a re-look at the box. It has a nice soft touch vinyl-like finish on the box. However, it has a small section that looks a little worn. Odd, as that box has been in storage for close to 8-9 years and never touched until now! I suppose it's due to age, heat & humidity. Some of my older TAG boxes (actually these were round containers) from the '90s with soft touch finishes have deteriorated even worse, as the finish is peeling off.
This is fairly common with lots of those vinyl watch boxes, which is why nowadays you see more wood veneers or other finishes
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·This is fairly common with lots of those vinyl watch boxes, which is why nowadays you see more wood veneers or other finishes
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·Noticed this Bamford piece, which could be the mirror universes's evil twin of the 90's watch. 😉
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·Noticed this Bamford piece, which could be the mirror universes's evil twin of the 90's watch. 😉
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·Wow, Bamford might actually have designed something palatable.
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El Matarife
·I would say they get it right 15% of the time, wrong 60% and really wrong 25%... there's no forgiving this.
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·It's a basketball?
Yep. My issue is, they took all the hour markers off and so the logo and the date wheel look completely ridiculous. Better to do away with the day date altogether and maybe have a slightly larger white logo instead, don't you think?
