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Tweet On June 21, 2017, Christie’s will conduct a sale of “Rare Watches and American Icons”, in New York City. There are 250 lots in the sale. You can find the online catalog HERE or the eCatalog flipbook HERE. There are 34 lots of Heuer chronographs and stopwatches in the sale, and this posting will Read more ;raquo Tweet In a November 5, 2015 posting on the OnTheDash vintage Heuer discussion forum, one of the members of our community (Gianluca) provided a beautifully illustrated, step-by-step description showing the disassembly of a Caliber 15 chronograph movement (known as the “Chronomatic” movement). The Chronomatic was the first automatic chronograph movement, and this family of movements was Read more ;raquo Tweet We launched OnTheDash on February 12, 2003, with an email message to 80 recipients. A few days ago, I received a message from one of these recipients, who I have been in touch with from time to time over the years. In his message he reminisced about the good old days, shared some thoughts about Read more ;raquo Tweet For years, Heuer collectors have stared at the image – its shows three Heuer chronographs, each bearing only the Heuer shield at the top of the dial and the word “Chronomatic” at the bottom of the dial. There are no model names on the dials, but the Heuer enthusiasts know exactly what they are – Read more ;raquo Tweet For vintage watch collectors, the difference between a “grail” watch and an ordinary watch is often a matter of small details. The texture of the paint, the length of a hash mark, the style of the serifs or the aging of the lume can all affect the collectability and value of a vintage watch. The Read more ;raquo Tweet This post is supplementary to Jeff’s article on the Heuer / Viceroy Autavia promotion, which has been published on the Hodinkee website. In this post, I use dates and figures from Jeff’s article and attempt to reference those against serial numbers to provide further context. The First Three Batches of Reference 1163 Autavia Cases. There Read more ;raquo Tweet “Leap Day” (February 29th) is a special day that only occurs every four years. Watch guys who own perpetual calendars marvel as the “29” arrives at midnight; 24 hours, they are even more impressed when the date moves to “1”. This year, I marked Leap Day by playing hooky from work — traveling to New Read more ;raquo Tweet Yesterday, on the TZ-UK Watch Talk discussion forum, I posted a photo showing four versions of the Heuer Autavia, Reference 1163, each with a black dial. A reader of that forum (under the name “even neve”) posted a message, stating, “Very nice – but don’t see the point in having four watches looking all the Read more ;raquo Tweet On November 3, 2011, Rich Crosthwaite — one of our Monaco experts — posted a message on our discussion forum regarding the Carrera Chronomatic dial shown immediately below. While our community had seen a handful of Chronomatic Carrera chronographs, all these had a gray-blue dial, with white registers, we had never seen a Chronomatic Carrera Read more ;raquo Tweet Shown below is an eBay listing for a Chronomatic Carrera, that should teach all of us a lesson. The Chronomatics are among the rarest of the vintage Heuers, with no more than 20 samples known within the community of collectors. Of these, the Chronomatic Carreras are especially rare, with only three or four having been Read more ;raquo |