Now the 40th anniversary Monacos are hitting retailers and collectors (grats to all those on the forum who have one), TAG-Heuer are turning their attention to one of the Monacos from Baselworlds past and getting it out to the public.

No, it's still not the production version of the Monaco V4 from Basel 2004, but the final version of the Monaco 360 LS from two years later.

For those of you who don't remember it, the 2006 prototype looked like this:

The production version will look like this (barring any last minute changes):

The dial is still a little busy, but that's to be expected with how time is being displayed by the movement. However, I think they've done a cracking job of improving it over the prototype - unlike the transition from concept to production car (Porsche Boxster, Audi TT anyone?), the detailing on the final product is much improved to my eyes. I just wish that hour recorder was white on black, that silver ring looks a bit cheap.

So now, after the 40th anniversary that pretty slavishly followed the original (bar those pushers of course...), we now have a thoroughly modern Monaco. I quite like it, for different reasons than the blue guy, but like it nonetheless - what do the Monaco fans think?