great topic!! I'm so glad our guys take the initiative to address topics that are bound to be of interest to the OnTheDash crowd.

having only seen one or two of the Star Wars movies, I am left with the question of why the "original" is called "Episode IV"?

I will apologize in advance if this is common knowledge among the Star Wars guys or within the realm of general culture, but I'm puzzled.

Of course, we could also ask why Heuer and its partners (Breitling, Hamilton and Buren) called the first automatic chronograph movement the Cal 11? Had Cal 1 through 10 already been used?

Jeff

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: I think this forum probably needs a review of
: Star Wars Episode III.....well, it probably
: doesn't but anyway, but I wanted to be
: first.

: Chuck had said in an earlier post he had
: "a bad feeling about this". Well I
: just saw episode III and it wasn't too bad.
: As I want to stay on topic (sort of) I would
: have to ask, if each episode of Star Wars
: was a Heuer watch, which one would it be?

: So for me...

: Star Wars (Epsd IV) = Mcqueen 1133 Monaco,
: obvious, as it is THE classic

: Empire Strikes Back (Epsd V) = PVD Black
: Monaco, a bit dark, some prefer it to the
: original

: Return of the Jedi (Epsd VI) = Silver dial Cal
: 15 Monaco - a lot of fun, maybe a bit
: flashy, but still a classic

: and then...

: Phantom Menace (Epsd I) = Tag Heuer Kirium
: Microtimer. Yeah it's rectangular and it has
: the name Heuer somewhere, but it's nothing
: to do with the original 1133 Monaco

: Attack of the Clones (Epsd II) = Tag Heuer
: Monza. It sort of made an effort to look
: like the original but it wasn't authentic.
: Sort of exciting but much too flashy

: Reveng of the Sith (Epsd III) = Tag Heuer
: Monaco reissue - it's pretty much like the
: original, and I can admit it's a better
: finished, but still it just doesnt quite
: have the magic. Pretty good effort though.

: So all in all, Chuck, I'd say it wasnt too bad,
: except for a few very annoying little
: things, but this is a Heuer forum, so I'll
: leave it at that.