TAG Heuer Monaco Chronograph x Goodwood Festival of Speed
The 1903 Gordon Bennett Cup forced Britain to race on foreign roads for the first time, since motoring was still illegal at home, and the cars sent to Ireland that year were painted shamrock green in tribute to their hosts. That shade, later known as British Racing Green, now covers the dial of this Monaco, a limited edition built around TAG Heuer's sponsorship of the Goodwood Festival of Speed, the hillclimb run every July on the Duke of Richmond's West Sussex estate. Inside a 39mm steel case, fine-brushed and polished and water resistant to 100 meters, sits the in-house Calibre TH20-00: an automatic movement with an 80-hour power reserve, a quarter-second chronograph, and 30-minute and 12-hour counters. Rhodium-plated indexes sit against the lacquered green dial, and the tip of the central chronograph hand is finished in a black-and-white check, the pattern drivers look for when they cross the line.
