Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Jun 10, 2010

LOT 143

Heuer-Leonidas St eel Carr era Heuer, ?Carrera.? Made in the late 1960s. Fine and rare, water resistant stainless steel wristwatch, with round button chronograph, registers and telemeter. To be sold without reserve

C. Two-body, polished, screwed down case back, lapidated lugs, flat bezel. D. Satinè silver with applied steel and black baton indexes, subsidiary guilloche dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12-hour registers, outer 1/5th seconds track and telemeter scale. Luminous steel and black baton hands. M. Cal. Valjoux 72, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating blued steel flat balance spring. Dial signed, movement and case signed Heuer ? Leonidas SA. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 13 mm.