I presume you meant early Cal 11?! These steel hands with a line appear in the first watches out of the door, and not for very long either. I have an N with serial shortly after this and it has the...
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I presume you meant early Cal 11?! These steel hands with a line appear in the first watches out of the door, and not for very long either. I have an N with serial shortly after this and it has the...
The dial is ok. The case is very polished though - the upper surface (but not the ring around the dial) should be a brushed finish. I normally fall on the "leave original" side of the fence, but when...
Just checked a couple of old ones and they look to be sans serif too.
The movement isn't a problem - on a recent visit to TAG Heuer, I turned up some technical drawings of the Calibre 12 from...
This one is too easy where the Heuers are concerned!
http://www.calibre11.com/ambassadors-heuer-formula-1/
And a few of my favourite F1 driver of all time:
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Does unintentional purple count? :)
Cal 15 blue-dialled Monacos and Carreras have a habit of fading to violet (see the watch on the right. Exact same model and dial as on the left, just had a run...
http://calibre11.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Heuer-Formula-1-Siffert.jpg
http://calibre11.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/lauda-stewart-fittipaldi.jpg
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You better hope she's not a stickler for word order, which is tightly specified in German, else you're not getting far with that!
It's so you can perform calculations on the timings, without having to constantly convert between decimals and seconds. You can make all the calcs on decimals and only convert back when all are...
The Tachy doesn't need to rotate, it's a relative scale, used with the second hand of the chronograph; you take a reading over a fixed distance and the second hand will be pointing at your speed...
Welcome Jarl.
Most of the Heuer collectors chase watches from the 60s and 70s. Jarl has taken a different approach from time to time and found great examples of the earlier watches. I'd recommend...
I quite like that Stewart - apart from the sodding great big steel crown :/
I'm also quite tempted to find a poor condition case Monza or .501 or some such and take it back to the base metal...
That's playing to the strengths of radioluminescence and not to photoluminescence at all though. The initial strength of a photoluminescent lume after light exposure is typically stronger than...
39mm across, excluding crown. Not too deep either. I find they wear really comfortably and, although my wrist is quite large, I think 39-40mm is a bit of a sweet spot size-wise.
Yep, that's a pretty straight earlyish 1153. I've not seen Mick's up close but it will be pretty much the same watch. And that's a very good price (for the buyer) for one of these nowadays, I'd...
I don't know if I would opt for NOS as the description, but it's certainly in excellent condition, with crisp case edges and the brushed and polished case finishes intact.
As several have already...
I think part of the attraction of white on black is it's the exception, rather than the norm. If it became the norm, then I wonder if it would appeal as much...
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A collection is a good collection because the collector thinks it is!
Some are stongly themed, many less so, some not really themed at all. Some are themed by stealth, when the collector suddenly...
Here's an article I wrote for International Watch a while back:
http://iwmagazine.com/2012/01/13/in-the-dark/
I won't say it has all the answers but hopefully it's a useful intro to what I...
The reports are for SIHH though, which took place in Geneva in Jan... Though they use a split Basel/SIHH heading, it does then go on to specify SIHH in the reports.
If anyone fancies a few more photos of the prototype carbon version of the new "Bullhead" Carrera, take a read of my write-up on Calibre 11 here:
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Just don't buy a vintage one. It may evoke the days of your youth, but the wabi is distinctly unappealing. You don't really want someone else's DNA all over your vintage bar either.
It's a great city, I hope you have a good time! I used to live just south of it, and still make a pilgrimage most years so feel its pull...
Have a read of:...
Afraid not, I'm a Carrera collector rather than a Heuer collector generally! The master table for Autavias, however, does include some measurements so might be of help:
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A very rough and ready size comparison I did for someone a while back:
http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/6506/sizecomparison.jpg
Left-to-right: 3rd gen, 2nd, 1st, 8th (as per David's article)....
Happy to give it a once over if you have pics Mark, to make sure you didn't make ANY mistakes!