Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 08, 2014

LOT 624

HEUER DASHBOARD TIMER Heuer, Monte-Carlo, No. 15106, Ref. 16.8433. Made circa 1970. Fine, chromed dashboard 60-second chronograph race timer with progressive 60-minute register, digital 12-hour register and tachometer.

Two-body, circular on a square backplate drilled for mounting, reeded rotating bezel, large winding crown for start/stop, button at 2 for reset, button at 11 for advancing the 12-hour digital register. Black with luminous Arabic 60-minute numerals for the 60-minute register, outer minute track with fifths of a second divisions, outermost tachometer scale, aperture for the 12-hour register. Luminous arrow and baton hands. 18''', rhodium-plated, 7 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating flat balance spring, index regulator.