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Does anyone know about the origin of 980 series?
In Response To: Newbie here, help on Heuer diver *LINK* ()

I have always been curious about these. The caseback is very deep for a quartz watch. I have suspected that the caseback is just the older auto caseback which was set up to accept an auto with a rotor. Later these 980.XXX series quartz divers have much flatter casebacks. I think my "Black Coral" PVD black and gold is the exact same case with the thinnner back is like 9-10 mm's thick. The earlier autos AND quartz were 12 or so.

Do any history addicts know?

In any event it is a fine looking watch.

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Newbie here, help on Heuer diver *LINK*
Does anyone know about the origin of 980 series?
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