Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 17, 2013

LOT 198

HEUER CARRERA CHRONOGRAPH Heuer, ?Carrera? Chronograph, case No. 81066. Made in the late 1960s. Fine, water resistant, gold-plated and stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers and tachometer.

C. Two-body, gold-plated, polished and brushed, flat bezel, lapidated lugs, screwed-down steel case back. D. Two-tone silver with applied yellow gilt faceted baton indexes and luminous dots, outer minutes and 1/5th of a seconds divisions, inner red tachometer scale to 200 units, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12-hour registers. Luminous yellow gilt baton hands. M. Cal. Valjoux 72, rhodium-plated, 18 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator. Dial signed Heuer, case and movement signed Heuer-Leonidas. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 12.5 mm.