As a recent 1133G buyer and recipient of Shaun's generous comments on the watch I feel very bad at having missed his sterling efforts and his 'call to arms' for final hour Monaco images. My excuse ? Here in the Isle of Man our TT Races clashed with Le Mans this year and I've always been a two-wheeler at heart. A legend over here was Mike Hailwood whose iconic status was sealed in 1978 when he returned to the Island, out of condition after years of injury-related absence, to win on an underdog Ducati against the might of Honda etc. Shortly afterwards he and his daughter were tragically killed in a car accident returning from their local fish and chip shop. A Heuer man, so far as I can tell (though Seiko may have been a sponsor of some kind judging by the occasional patch evident on his leathers at that time) Mike had four blue Silverstones engraved and given away to the team who helped him win on the Island that year. Of course there are many online articles that explain the Hailwood myth far better than I can, and you may also stumble across a 2011 auction entry for one of the four watches. Anyway, great images Shaun and I would urge anyone to seek out IOM TT clips on youtube and see if it floats your boat - there really is nothing quite like it in this heath and safety obsessed age and it's one of the few events in which you can still mingle in the paddock with racers and sit within feet of bikes flying past at ridiculous speeds inches from roadside walls and all manner of other solid objects.