Right-handed, and better for it, apparently
By Julien Moreau, Geneva ยท
Moving the crown back to the right-hand side felt to me like correcting a famous misprint. Technically right, emotionally wrong.
Still, the Heuer 02 is the better movement: an in-house column-wheel chronograph with a vertical clutch and 80 hours of reserve, twice what the Calibre 11 manages. The square case is 39 mm and, unfortunately, 15.1 mm thick, which makes it a hefty watch on a leather strap. Blue dial, date, open back, 100 m. At seventy-three fifty to seventy-nine fifty, it is only four hundred more than the Calibre 11. For the buyer who wants a Monaco that is a good chronograph first and a homage second, this is it. I would still take the one with the crown on the wrong side.