Evening all.

A friend of mine who knows very little about watches wants to buy a new blue dial Tag Heuer Monaco, and has asked me if I can help him get one at a good price.

I don’t know a great deal about Monaco’s, and I’ve discovered that TH currently list watches with 3 different automatic movements... Calibre 11, Calibre 12 and Calibre 02. I’ve worked out that the 02 is a manufacture movement and has twice the power reserve, and also (unless I’m mistaken) that the 11 appears to be a more faithful reproduction of the original Steve McQueen watch.

I would really welcome those who know to give me some ideas of the differences between the 3, which model he should go for and why. He’s buying it as a retirement present to himself, will keep it forever and intends to pass it on to one of his grandsons when he goes...

Grateful for any WISdom (see what I did there?!)

Simon