Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 25, 2010

LOT 39

Heuer Carrera Heuer, "Carrera, Automatic Chronograph, No. 370743, Ref. 110.253. Made in the 1970s. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, tonneau-shaped, stainless steel left-handed wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date and a stainless steel Heuer buckle.

C. Two-body, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back, winding-crown at 9, chronograph buttons at 2 and 4. D. Two-tone satinè blues with applied luminous steel baton indexes, luminous dots, outer fifths of a second divisions, black subsidiary dials for the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outermost graduation for the tachometer on an inclined ring, aperture for the date at 6. Luminous steel baton hands. M. Cal. 12, gilt brass, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 14 mm.