Welcome to Monaco F1 2024, an event that blends the thrill of high speed racing with the elegance of luxury timepieces. As a long time fan of both motorsports and watches, I can’t think of a better way to spend the last weekend in May. Let’s dive into the highlights and the most remarkable watches spotted at this year's event.
Qualifying Monaco F1 2024
The Monaco Grand Prix is always a spectacle, but 2024 took it to another level. Any F1 fan knows the Monaco race is won or lost on the Saturday during Qualifying, given the difficulty of overtakes on such a tight track during the Sunday race. In a year where Max Verstappen has taken pole at the last 8 races, the local Monegasque favourite Charles Leclerc claimed pole after a sensational lap, threading the streets of Monaco with absolute precision at an average speed of 122 MPH.
Race Day F1 Monaco 2024
Huge congratulations to Charles Leclerc for his win, making him the first Monegasque driver to Win at home in 93 years. After a red flag bought the race to a holt on lap one, Leclerc aced the restart and led 78 laps flag to flag.
Driver Watches Spotted
Here are some of the Watches spotted across the race weekend!
Charles Leclerc
Starting with Charles Leclerc, rarely seen at any race track without a Richard Mille on the wrist, this weekend was no different.
Seen Wearing the £248,000 RM72-01 Flyback Chronograph
Sergio Perez
Sir Lewis Hamilton
Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 have a long standing partnership with IWC. Hamilton was seen wearing a concept IWC Pilot's watch, however this was a brand new prototype watch "Ceralume". The worlds first watch with a fully luminescent case. There is no news from IWC regarding a commercial release of the watch.
George Russell
George Russell seen wearing the 2024 IWC Portugieser Perpetual Calendar Rose Gold as he cruised into the Monaco Harbour by boat ahead of Qualifying on Saturday morning.
Toto Wolf
Team Boss Toto Wolff seen wearing the IWC Big Pilot’s Watch Perpetual Calendar Edition “Toto Wolff x Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team.” This watch was Limited to 100 pieces, didn't take Totto for a right wrister though...
Daniel Riccardo
Tudor's sponsorship of the Visa Cash App RB Formula 1 team has been publicised since the start of the year. Following the special "one off" Chameleon Dial Black Bay seen in Miami, Daniel Ricciardo was spotted wearing the team's Black Bay Ceramic during a talk on the Monaco Fan Zone stage. The unmistakable Blue Dial is hard to miss.
Max Verstappen
World Champion Max Verstappen was on the back foot, qualifying only 6th at the Monaco F1. Despite the launch of Tag Heuer's brand new Monaco Watch, Max was spotted wearing the Tag Heuer Monaco Split Seconds Chronograph [also new for 2024] . A cool £121,000 if you fancy one for yourself!
Celebrity Watches Spotted
Tommy Hilfiger
Hilfiger was seen at the Miami F1 sporting a Rolex Daytona, but for Monaco he pulled out all the stops with the limited Edition 5711 Patek Phillipe 'Tiffany Dial'. One of the rarest Patek watches ever put into production - valued at £1.6Million
Kylian Mbappe
Football star MBAPPE was seen wearing Hublot's Big Bang Unico-king-rainbow. The watch features 176 coloured stones on the case, 48 on the bezel, and 212 on the dial! Altogether, there are 436 stones; rubies, pink sapphires, amethysts, blue sapphires, blue topazes, tsavorites, yellow sapphires and orange sapphires!
Winnie Harlow and Kyle Kuzma
This pair were spotted during the grid walk thirty minutes before lights out - Winne was spotted wearing a diamond set Audemars Piguet Royal Oak, and Kuzma wore a platinum baguette diamond 5711 Nautilus. Not far of a million pounds worth of watches combined.
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