Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Geneva, Nov 08, 2014
HEUER CARRERA Heuer, « Carrera, Automatic Chronograph ». Made in the 1970s. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, tonneau-shaped, stainless steel left-handed wristwatch with round button chronograph, register, tachometer and date.
Two-body, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back, winding-crown at 9, chronograph buttons at 2 and 4. Two-tone, silvered and grey, applied steel baton indexes with luminous tips, outer fifths of a second divisions, small second at 10, subsidiary grey dial for the 30-minute register, outermost graduation for the tachometer on an inclined ring, aperture for the rimmed date at 6. Luminous steel baton hands. Cal. 15, gilt brass, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring.
Grading System | |
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Grade: A |
Good |
Case: 3-11 |
Good Slightly worn |
Movement: 3* |
Good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 3-01 |
Good HANDS Original |