I visited the Tag Heuer outlet store the other day and just noticed that they constantly change old photos of McQueen's watches by cropping in their current Monaco. Is this blasphemy? Just think it's wrong to crop in new watches on existing old photos. It's like they are saying, "If Steve McQueen was alive, he would wear this watch".

 

well, in this case it's more like a Bond watch. Steve McQueen never wore that watch, Heuer paid for his character to wear it on a movie so their just extending their rights

 

My biggest issue with it is, that a company with as much money as TAG couldn't pay a designer to properly edit the image... lazy job, badly done.

 

Never noticed before. It's on his right arm! He's a lefty. Must have read the handbook

 

a few factoids http://sartoriallyinclined.blogspot.com/2010/01/watches-of-steve-mcqueen.html

 

I love that article. He was the king of cool but not the fastest driver . Redford (Rolex guy, too) on the other hand was a very good driver and competitive into his 70's. AND also a lefty. My father is in his 70's and it's all I can do to get him to drive 55.

 

he always wore his watches on the right arm. here are some movie shots and some more adds

 

Yeah, and then they make the common mistake of Identifying the Explorer as his go to watch when it was a 4 line 5512 Sub non gilt as can be seen on ALL the pictures

 

Hey! Like it's been said, if is in the internet it must be true!

 

oops. Confused Redford with Paul Newman (yet another Rolex guy). Newman was fast. Redford didn't race.

 

Sure but it takes just a little brain to see that the picture of the watch you're mentioning and the picture of the man wearing it does not match. Just looking at the bezel should tell you...

 

My wife would take any of them or all three. I would be okay as long as they gave me a Daytona, a 5512 and whatever Redford wears other than the Seiko on his last movie

 

2 of the 3 are dead

 

That's her problem not mine...

 

Did like the Tag that was bought for Walt in Breaking Bad



Even thou i have

 

One of the best 'acting' drivers was James Garner, who took the lead in the 1966 'Grand Prix'

"Garner was very competent and even took up racing and entering cars as a direct result of his involvement in the film. So impressive were Garner's driving skills that some of the real Formula One drivers, including Graham Hill and Jack Brabham, reportedly told Garner that he could have been a successful Grand Prix driver if he had not gone into acting" : Wiki

Sporting a Heuer Carrera ?

 

Or a Bell&Ross? Hard to tell on that pic... Probably the carrera though, you're right