Heuer Watch Company

[stavros_ch]

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[marios_ch]

What Is This Heuer Autavia With Exotic Dial, Besides Awesome Looking? Nobody Seems To Know





What is this watch? Honestly, nobody seems to know, but it is absolutely awesome looking. When we were at TAG Heuer Headquarters a few weeks back, we spotted this curious vintage Autavia in a glass case within the company's restoration department. Something about it seemed strange. The thing is, we know our vintage Autavias pretty well, especially the automatic guys, and this one just seemed different. So, we asked them to take the watch out for further inspection and photographs (seen here, of course). When we returned to New York, we reached out to Heuer experts David Chalmers of Calibre 11 and Jeff Stein of On The Dash.

Both David and Jeff knew of the watch, and they also knew that nobody had gotten to the bottom of this mystery yet. They said that only two or three examples of the exotic dial Autavia has been seen in the last half decade or so, but neither could say much of its origins - was it a special commission, a limited edition, a prototype? We simply don't know.

What we do know is that this special racing dial Autavia, fitted with a Caliber 15 automatic (Caliber 15 is a paired down Caliber 11/12 that features running seconds instead of an hour counter) is one great looking watch, one that you rarely see in the flesh. Hell, we had to travel to TAG's headquarters in La Chaux de Fonds to see one! We also know that there is surely an explanation behind this rarity, and someday, we hope to bring it to you. Until then, enjoy the beauty that is the vintage Heuer Autavia with exotic dial and should you ever come across one of these for sale, you know where to reach us (right here!).

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[eisenberg]

Πρωτη φορα το βλεπω!

Πρεπει να ναι σουπερ σπανιο κομματι!

[stavros_ch]

Και πανεμορφο..!

[marios_ch]

έτσι ακριβως Θοδωρή.......

όπως λεει και στο κειμενο γκουρου των Heuer δεν ήταν σίγουροι για το τι εστι.......

[Megalos]

πολυ ομορφο και πραγματικα σπανιοτατο
φιλε VC222 Κωνσταντινε μπας και μπορει να ξερεις εσυ κατι σχετικο ?

[antonis_ch]

Φοβερο βινταζ!

[snapper]

Πραγματικα,.. απιστευτο κομματι...

[marios_ch]

Heuer 1614 Chonograph (French Made)



Heuer 1614 Chronograph, Manual Valjoux 7765, French Made

This retro looking chrono was available in the late 70s alongside a few other French made models. I’m not entirely sure why they were made in France. The first 844 divers were made in France by Monnin at around the same time, so it could be presumed they made these too, but there is no Monnin markings anywhere on this model.

There appears to be several variations of the 1614, among the differences are: ‘Incabloc’ written under the Heuer shield, different hand sets/hand colour and the most obvious version with the Champion Sparkplugs co-branding resulting in a different placement of the Heuer sheild.

It’s powered by the well regarded, and tough Swiss Valjoux 7765, and has a two colour date wheel, the even dates are in black, odd in red. Apart from the dial, they are unsigned, with a blank crown and movement.

The 1614 has two brothers, the 1611 & 1589B that was a similar dial design, same movement & made in France too. The main differences is that they have a rather lovely white dial and more curvaceous case designs. There appears to have been a lot of these (NOS) 1611 cases/dials/handsets floating around and have been used to ‘make up’ NOS models. This isn’t so bad, some are true to the original, some deviate a little. There have also been various outright fakes that are easier to spot – some with PVD finishing, yellow dials etc. Thankfully the 1614 isn’t targeted as much as the ‘cooler’ white dial version, maybe because the fume dial & 70’s-tastic colouring isn’t as popular.















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[Megalos]

ομορφο αυτο το σπανιο κομματι της Heuer .. δεν νομιζω οτι το ηξερε κανεις μας ...
VC222 μπας και ξερεις κατι παραπανω ?