Weekend Reading: The Wall Street Journal Goes Hunting For Steve McQueen’s Monaco

There are a few watches out there that mean a whole lot to all of us in the collecting community: the steel 1518 is one, the platinum 2499 is another. Paul Newman’s Paul Newman is yet another. But today we’ll be talking about one watch that might take the cake as the most widely known, but least understood timepiece in the public watch narrative – Steve McQueen’s Heuer Monaco. It’s a tricky watch to discuss because, in fact, there isn’t one Steve McQueen Monaco, there are six.

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