Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 28, 2014

LOT 327

HEUER LEONIDAS CARRERA CHRONOGRAPH STEEL Heuer, "Carrera." Made in the late 1960s. Fine and rare, tonneau-shaped, water-resistant stainless steel wristwatch, with round button chronograph, registers and tachometer.

HKD 15,000 - 23,000

USD 2,000 - 3,000 / CHF 1,700 - 2,700

Sold: HKD 30,000

Two-body, polished and brushed, screwed down case back, flat bezel. Bicolor satine 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. Cal. Valjoux 7736, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 3

Good

Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 3-01

Good

HANDS Original

Notes

Dial signed, movement and case signed Heuer - Leonidas SA. DIAM. 38 mm. THICKNESS 14 mm.