Mark

Totally agree, indeed in my recent research Jack Heuer told me that the initial Monaco case came into existence when Mr Piquerez stopped by the office in 1968 and showed the team the square case design he had come up with, as Jack was looking for something to differentiate themselves from Breitling it was just the job, they then collaborated to some degree about the fine tuning of the case, via brass dummies, but the supplier did the work.

I'm pretty sure the same was the case with the dials and again Jack alluded to that, and as i say the pur[pose of this dial is not for it to have been a production model, rather to test the "colours" and layout used, to focus on the crazy "rising sun" outside would be somewhat missing the point...

Cheers

Rich

: DC and I had coincidentally been discussing how much of classic era
: Heuer design was the responsibility of Heuer and how much down
: to their specialist suppliers. We know Piquerez approached Heuer
: with the Monaco case and it's no great stretch to imagine the
: dial suppliers doing the same.

: And it would be by no means fair to single out Heuer - the vast
: majority of the watch houses were supported by this cottage
: industry of specialist suppliers and most of the watches from
: the period are a collaborative effort to one extent or another.