If anybody know gold it is I. I have purchased and sold many many gold coins since 1964 (I started when gold was at $40.00 per ounce) and that ain't a gold bezel/interior ring. It is beige. The WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY defines BEIGE as "a variable color averaging light yellowish brown" ..."a pale grayish yellow". From your picture the bezel/interior ring is not gold. It appears to be the "yellowish brown" as WEBSTER'S defines it. Even the dial in you picture doesn't look gold (looks gray). I have seen gold dial appear silver in photos and I have seen gold dial also make the bezel appear gold when they are not. This may explains the three gold bezel you have seen in eBay auctions. Of course if you think that the one on yours is gold this may also explain it. The bezel/interior ring on the Montreal is not gold like the dial but a beige which can appear to have gold tones, specially when next to a gold dial. The one I have is correct and the interior ring is beige not gold. The dial is gold. Charles.

: There was a thread a few days ago about gold
: Heuers...I'm one of the rare people who
: quite likes a few gold watches. I even have
: the gold 11063V Autavia and that is very. .
: .err. . . very . . gold.

: Anyway, to get to the point, I think I can
: comment on the gold Montreal: I am 99% sure
: that the gold model should be with a gold
: bezel. Here is a wrecked gold model I bought
: and I used for the movement & hands in a
: project (outcome on the right). I dont think
: you fake a watch in the condition of the
: gold one...it has to be original.

: I have seen three gold montreals sell on ebay
: in the last year or so, and all had gold
: bezels. I know ebay is not the reference,
: but, you get my point. I have stored the
: photos for info if anyone wants to see.

: Once we are on Montreals, in terms of my
: "reconstructed" 110.503N model in
: the photo, Jeff, I think you originally said
: Heuer did not produce the combination shown
: in the main photo, but I am pretty sure that
: they did, as you have it in the master ref
: table, and it is also implied by page 20 of
: the 1974 Chrono Catalog (link below). I
: would say the photo is the correct
: dial/bezel/hand/case combination (even if I
: am first to admit it is a "put
: together")... do people agree?

: Also..IMO, I think it should be white dial,
: white bezel, but that is mainly because it
: "feels right" but I'm not sure
: that is considered hard evidence. I have
: seen three white/white on ebay last couple
: of years. Also one or two on dealer sites,
: but that may correspond to one or two unique
: watches only.

: PS: my homepage seems really sloooooooooow to
: load at the moment, so sorry about that,
: usually it is OK, but you may have to be
: patient.