Yup...stories.
Obviously McQueen wanted to wear a cool watch like Siffert and the other guys when he was chopping the top off a perfectly good GT 40 and mounting the great grandfather of GoPros for some track footage, so several watches were brought to the set for the on-screen drivers to wear, and he grabbed a Monaco.
Today's models are dressed in Gulf colors or white dials/subdials and all kinds of other motifs. This was just one of the Heuer dress models. Seemed huge when I got it...pre-Panerai.
I'm sorta like the guy in the old milk commercial trying to say "Aaron Burr"...when I put LeMans on, I wear this, Apollo 13 and its the Speedy, Sahara and it's the Doxa, etc.
Wife thinks I'm nuts...that's ok (I am).
Took that pic with this...before digital, this was my small carry camera. Film was asspensive, and even more asspensive to process (only place was in New Jersey) but by golly you could blow it up big...perfect for top secret documents or spy satellite imagery.
