TAG Heuer Silverstone Limited Edition

Ref: CAM2110 (Ltd. Ed. Of 1860)

Year: 2010

This fabulous limited edition TAG Heuer Silverstone comes as a full set with its special presentation box, outer card box, TAG guarantee card dated 2010 and manual. It is in excellent all round condition and the movement has been serviced.

Further information on this reference below:-

The Silverstone chronograph was introduced in 1974 as the successor of the Monaco, with the new model moderating some of the extreme elements of the Monaco. Still, facing difficult economic and industry conditions, the Silverstone had a limited run, with three colourful models in the 1970s and one model in the mid-1980s. These watches capture the bold style of the 1970s, and have remained popular to this date.

When Heuer introduced the world’s first automatic chronographs, in 1969, the line-up of models consisted of the Autavia, the Carrera and the Monaco. With its outrageous square shape, and a midnight blue dial with white and red accents, the Monaco was Heuer’s avant-garde, unconventional chronograph, a creation of the 1960s that would carry the Heuer flag into the 1970s. The Monaco didn’t achieve the popularity that Heuer had hoped for, so in 1974 introduced the Silverstone chronograph, as its replacement.

Like the Monaco, the Silverstone used a square case, but the new model “walked-back” the most outrageous elements of the Monaco. On the Silverstone, the corners of the case were rounded (rather than squared), the registers were flat and used the same paint as the dial, the sharp edges of the case were softened, with a sculpted top bezel, and the case used a traditional screw-back, in place of the clips and springs used for the Monaco. The Silverstone was the first Heuer chronograph to carry the name of a racetrack, with the Daytona, Monza and Jarama soon to follow.

Unlike most Heuer models of the 1970s, the Silverstone line-up was straight forward – there were three versions with identical cases, bright white hands (with wide luminous inserts) and Calibre 12 movements. All that differed between the three models was the colour and finish of the dial and the matching inner bezels.

TAG HEUER SILVERSTONE RE-EDITION -- 2010

To mark the 150th of the Heuer brand, in 2010 TAG Heuer produced a new Limited Edition of the Silverstone, with either a blue dial (CAM2110) or a brown dial (CAM2111). With the TAG Heuer Calibre 11 movement (introduced by TAG Heuer for the 40th anniversary of the Monaco), the crown was on the left side of the case, with a 30 minute chronograph recorder at 9 o’clock and running seconds at 3 o’clock. The new Silverstone was limited to 1,860 pieces of each colour.