Therefore buy it knowing it's cheaper than the real thing for a good reason and perhaps because you like the look of the dial.

But essentially it's value is for parts, unless you can find a spare 73633b dial, i havent seen a nice one for sale in the past 12 months though...

Cheers

Rich
www.heuermonaco.co.uk

: Hi Ted,
: Let me start by letting you know that manual wind 3 register blue
: Monaco's (73633B) have had a questionable history of
: authenticity when it comes to models that have anything other
: than white registers. The forum seems to mostly agree that the
: registers on these watches should only be white but there have
: been others that have beleived in the blue registers and even
: some that have received letters of authenticity from Tag Heuer.
: I'm not certain this issue has been fully resolved yet.
: With that being said, the more time spent looking at this dial the
: more mistakes you are going to turn up. An instant glimpse
: allows me to tell you the Heuer sheild is of the wrong
: proportions, with too thin a script and incorrect lettering
: style. There is no lume dots present on the hour marks and the
: smaller steel hour markers present on the 2,4,8 & 10
: positions are the wrong size, shape and texture.
: My own opinion - there's already enough evidence to call this at
: best a re-dial but it couldin fact be something far more
: sinister (a copy).
: The value of this particular item is in the sum of its remaining
: parts - case, movement, crystal, crown, pushers & hands
: (although there seems to be something odd with these hands
: also).
: Check out a real example from the OTD photo reference :-
: http://www.onthedash.com/Guide/_Chronographs/69.Monaco/c.Reference_73633/Reference_73633B_
: (Blue)/
: Hope this helps you - Darren

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