The Swiss watchmaker unveils 500 numbered pieces of the Monza Flyback Chronograph, named after the circuit where Ferrari won its drivers' title in 1975.
In 1971, Heuer signed a deal no watch brand had signed before: it became the official timekeeper of Scuderia Ferrari, the first time a watchmaker partnered formally with a Formula 1 team. Four seasons later, in 1975, Niki Lauda brought Ferrari a drivers' title the team hadn't won since 1964. Heuer answered the following year with a new chronograph collection named after the track where Italy runs its Grand Prix: the Monza.
Half a century of its own identity
The original 1976 Monza stood out immediately for a visual character unlike other Heuer chronographs of the time, and that identity turned it into one of the house's most recognizable pieces. Over the following decades the collection went through several interpretations, each carrying the technical and design signature of its era, until TAG Heuer revived it in 2023 with the contemporary Monza Flyback Chronograph, the base this anniversary edition now builds on.
The fiftieth-anniversary watch
TAG Heuer unveiled the new edition just ahead of the 2026 Italian Grand Prix, run at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza, the same track that has lent the collection its name for fifty years. The watch keeps the 42mm cushion-shaped case introduced with the contemporary Monza, now in forged carbon, a material that adds lightness and a marbled texture unique to each piece.
The black matte dial keeps the red accents and matte black counters that echo the original Monza's palette, while the flange combines a tachymeter and pulsometer scale, a function rarely seen outside classic racing chronographs. Inside runs the Caliber TH20-12, an in-house movement certified as a chronometer by COSC, with a flyback function: it resets the chronograph with a single push, without stopping the running measurement first, which matters for timing consecutive intervals on track. Production is limited to 500 pieces, each numbered on the caseback.
Technical specifications: TAG Heuer Monza Flyback Chronograph (ref. CR5092.FC8372)
| Case | Forged carbon, 42mm diameter, cushion shape, fixed carbon bezel |
| Crystal | Domed sapphire with double anti-reflective coating |
| Crown | Carbon, at 3 o'clock |
| Pushers | Black DLC steel, at 2 and 4 o'clock |
| Caseback | Black DLC titanium grade 2, screwed, limited-edition engraving (XXX/500) |
| Water resistance | 100 meters |
| Dial | Black matte, flange with tachymeter and pulsometer scales, white indexes with Super-LumiNova® |
| Counters | 3 o'clock: black matte chronograph minute counter, red lacquered hand · 6 o'clock: black matte permanent seconds, white lacquered hand |
| Central hands | Hours and minutes in black and white lacquer with white Super-LumiNova® · red-lacquered central chronograph hand |
| Date | Angled window at 9 o'clock |
| Caliber | Caliber TH20-12, TAG Heuer manufacture, automatic, COSC-certified, flyback function |
| Strap | Black perforated calfskin with red stitching |
| Close | Sandblasted titanium grade 2 folding clasp with double safety pushbuttons |
| Edition | Limited to 500 numbered pieces |
| Availability | From September 2026 |
| Price | USD 13,400 (North America) · EUR 13,350 (Europe) · CHF 12,600 (Switzerland) · MXN 268,500 (Mexico) |
Availability in our region
In Mexico, TAG Heuer's official site lists the watch at MXN 268,500 and marks it as sold out for online purchase, pointing buyers to physical boutiques instead. Elsewhere in the region, TAG Heuer's launch announcement did not include a specific price for Colombia or Argentina; the only official regional figures the brand gave cover North America, Europe, Switzerland, the UK, Japan, and Hong Kong. In Spain, the EUR 13,350 price applies directly as a eurozone market. With only 500 pieces worldwide and, at least in Mexico, the online channel already sold out, the most reliable path to a unit in the region is a direct visit to a TAG Heuer boutique.
Fifty years after Lauda brought that title back to Ferrari, the circuit that named this collection marks its calendar again — not with a race this time, but with an anniversary TAG Heuer chose to celebrate on the same track where it all began.
