Auction Watch -- Artcurial Selling 40 Vintage Heuers, July 18, 2016 (The Good, The Bad and The Ugly)Tweet The vintage Heuers have been hot lately, so the dynamics of supply and demand tell us that with the recent strong increases in prices, we are likely to see more vintage Heuer chronographs coming into the market. In April and May 2016, we saw Christie’s, Sotheby’s, Phillips and three other auction houses sell over 75 Read more ;raquo Tweet Of all the vintage Heuer chronographs that we see, the Monaco Reference 73663 B (three register, manual wind Monaco, with a blue dial) may win the prize for being the model with the highest percentage of fakes, refinished dials, replacement hands and other issues of authenticity. In some instances, only one element has been replaced, Read more ;raquo In recent months, we have made considerable progress in understanding the development of the Caliber 11, 11-I and 12 movements, with the result that we are able to study the parts in a paritcular movement to determine the “correctness” of the movement. At the same time, we have begun compiling a database of Heuer serial numbers, which has allowed us to establish approximate dates for many of the Heuer chronographs. Read more ;raquo |