Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Jun 10, 2010

LOT 142

Heuer-Leonidas Steel Carrera Heuer, ?Carrera.? Made in the late 1960s. Fine and rare, tonneau-shaped, water resistant stainless steel wristwatch, with round button chronograph, registers and tachometer. To be sold without reserve

C. Two-body, polished and brushed, screwed down case back, flat bezel. D. Bicolor satinè silver and black with applied steel and black baton indexes and luminous dots, subsidiary guilloche dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12-hour registers, outer 1/5th seconds track and tachometer scale. Luminous steel and black baton hands. M. Cal. Valjoux 7733, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial signed, movement and case signed Heuer ? Leonidas SA. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 13 mm.