: Don't worry, TAG Heuer have a pretty good record at putting the
: Basel concepts on sale:
: Microtimer - went on general sale
: Monaco Sixty-Nine - on sale as a limited edition
: Carrera 360 - went on sale as a number of limited editions
: Grand Carrera Calibre 36 Caliper (phew!) - about to go on sale in a
: couple of versions
: Monaco V4 - er, well... er...yes...it will go on sale...
: we're tooling up for it...errr.../nods enthusiastically whilst
: backing away
I'd forgotten the Monaco 360 LS and the Diamond Fiction, so their record of making the Basel prototypes available for sale is a bit patchier than I first thought above, particularly where Monacos are concerned... :s
Still, this Monaco 24 looks fairly grounded in reality without particularly new or over-complicated movement so chances are pretty good, I'd say. What I hadn't appreciated from this photo, though, and is entirely clear in the new photos ( http://www.tagheuer.com/basel2009/index.lbl?lang=en ) is that this is a round dial suspended in the square case. Interesting...