:Thanks for that Mark,

I have seen some of the posts recently of the gold Carreras and they are lovely, especially the 'bud' one!

I am sucker for gold and I think the Monacos would have looked amazing in gold, the v4 looks very smart, probably one of the few new Tag Heuers I would have.

Thanks for the links -gives me some bedtime reading!

In the 20s and 30s, a fair proportion of Heuer's range was
: available in either 14 or 18 carat gold. This went down a bit in
: the 40s, up again in the 50s, and then during the 60s there were
: only a couple of models at a time in gold, sometimes only one.
: During the pre-Chronomatic phase, those were the Carrera and
: Camaro; the Autavias were always in steel in this period.
: Gold-plating had become more popular, replacing the more costly
: gold-filling process and both Carrera and Camaro were also
: available as plated models - these are much more common than the
: solid gold variants.

: Come the Chronomatics and the launch of the Monaco, the only model
: range to feature solid gold was the Carrera, with the 1158. The
: Autavia got a gold-plated model late in its life, and watches
: like the Montreal had gold-plated versions but no more 18K ones
: aside from the Carrera. Whether that is the vagaries of fashion,
: or rocketing gold prices in the 70s restricting the use to the
: smaller cased Carrera is open to debate.

: So the short answer is, no Heuer didn't produce a gold Monaco,
: either solid or plated.

: But the story doesn't end quite there for the Monaco. When
: TAG-Heuer released new versions, they did include a model in
: 18K:

:
:

: Perhaps surprisingly, it's a somewhat handsome beast and does make
: me wonder what an 1138 would have looked like if Heuer had done
: one back in the day. I'd wager not bad.

: Straying somewhat further from the classic Monaco case is the
: Monaco V4, available in rose gold amongst others:

:
:

: If you're interested in the precious metals, I wrote a couple of
: articles on Calibre 11, covering the Heuer and TAG-Heuer
: periods:

: http://www.calibre11.com/precious-metal-heuer/
: http://www.calibre11.com/precious-metals-tag-heuer/