TAG Heuer arrived at Watches & Wonders 2026 with two Monaco launches, and both are worth your full attention. The Monaco Chronograph introduces a thoroughly redesigned case and a new in-house movement. The Monaco Evergraph goes further, presenting what is arguably the most significant mechanical architecture TAG Heuer has developed in decades. Two watches, two price points, one icon – let’s get into it.
TAG Heuer Monaco Chronograph
The Dials
TAG Heuer offers the new Monaco Chronograph in three colourways, and each one carries real character. The blue version, the one collectors will chase, features a blue opalin dial with a 60-second/minute scale and silver opalin subdials at three and nine o’clock. Rhodium-plated, faceted applied indices carry white SuperLuminova, with red-lacquered hour markings on the minute track and red-lacquered hand tips. That red-on-blue pairing goes straight back to the Steve McQueen reference 1133B, and TAG Heuer knows exactly what it is doing here.
The British Racing Green version takes a sunrayed, brushed and lacquered approach on the main dial, adds a green flange with white-printed scale markings, and uses black opalin subdials with rhodium-plated hands. It is refined and understated in the best possible way. The third option, the black dial variant, combines a black opalin surface with 18K 5N rose gold-plated faceted applied indices and matching hands with white SuperLuminova and black lacquer centres – a genuinely dressy proposition.
The Movement
The new in-house Calibre TH20-11 is the headline upgrade. TAG Heuer‘s teams spent several years reworking it from the established TH20-00 base, and the configuration now honours the original Calibre 11 directly: a bi-compax layout with subsidiary counters at three and nine o’clock and a date aperture at six o’clock. The crown sits at nine o’clock on the left side, a Monaco signature since 1969. Power reserve stands at 80 hours, and the movement carries a five-year warranty.
The Case
The 39mm grade 5 titanium case is a meaningful redesign rooted in reference 1133. Sharp angular edges define the silhouette, and the sapphire crystal now approaches a true square in profile. The caseback uses a smaller circular central section that curves outward toward the case edges, improving wrist comfort considerably. Fine brushing and polishing alternate across the surfaces, creating contrast and depth. The blue and green references carry an entirely grade 5 titanium case, bezel, and screwed sapphire caseback with 100-metre water resistance, each sitting on a perforated black calfskin strap with a grade 5 titanium folding clasp. The rose gold variant upgrades the fixed bezel, crown, and pushers to polished 18K 5N rose gold. Pricing starts at £7,900 for the blue and green references and rises to £11,000 for the two-tone rose gold model.
TAG Heuer Monaco Evergraph
The Dial
The Evergraph rejects the conventional dial entirely and uses transparent acrylic glass, giving the impression that the indices and subdials float within the case. The blue version features fine-brushed and sandblasted bridges with blue opaline subdials at three and nine o’clock, rhodium-plated open-worked hour and minute hands with white SuperLuminova and red-lacquered tips, and a red lacquered central chronograph hand. The black DLC version mirrors this layout with DLC-coated bridges and black gold-coated hands with red tips. The visual effect in both cases is genuinely arresting.
The Movement
The Calibre TH80-00, developed with Vaucher Manufacture Fleurier, is the real story. TAG Heuer’s LAB team spent five years building a compliant chronograph mechanism that removes virtually all traditional levers and springs from the start, stop, and reset functions, replacing them with two flexible bistable components produced using high-precision LIGA technology. One governs start and stop, the other governs reset, and neither degrades over time, the ten-thousandth press of the pusher delivers the same crisp response as the first. The movement runs at 5Hz, uses the TH-Carbonspring oscillator for magnetic resistance, achieves a 70-hour power reserve, and carries both COSC certification and a five-year warranty. An inverted construction places the barrel, gear train, and escapement fully visible from the dial side, and the signature chequered-flag finish decorates the movement back.
The Case
At 40mm in grade 5 titanium, the Evergraph case takes the same reference 1133-inspired architecture established with the Split-Seconds Chronograph and refines it further. Tapered profiles create a sensation of thinness, sharp facets along the case edges add architectural presence, and a square sapphire caseback provides full visibility of the square movement within. New elongated pushers at two and four o’clock, the crown at nine, and 100-metre water resistance round out the specification. The blue version pairs with a blue rubber strap with textile embossing; the black DLC version goes on black rubber with red stitching. Both carry grade 5 titanium folding clasps. Pricing for both Evergraph executions sits at £20,000.
Two Watches Worth Your Time
The Monaco Chronograph gives you a properly redesigned, in-house-powered icon at £7,900, the most accessible the Monaco has been with this level of specification. The Evergraph, at £20,000, justifies every penny with a movement architecture that genuinely pushes the chronograph forward after 150 years of largely unchanged design. Together, these two watches represent TAG Heuer operating with purpose and confidence, and for Monaco collectors, 2026 is unquestionably the year to pay attention.
