Hello Bruce. I have always valued your opinion concerning Heuer and I have a question. I have a Heuer Montreal with gold plated case and gold dial. It also has the raised gold indices (I have a gold plated Autavia with gold dial and the same raised indices). I also have a stainless case Montreal with the white dial and silver raised indices. I have two stainless case Montreal with black dials and the raised slim and long luminous hour markers. I also have a stainless case Montreal with dark blue dial and the same indice as show in the auction that you mention, which are raise slim long luminous hour markers. My question is why did Heuer put raised gold and silver indices on some Montreals (Gold and White) and didn't on the Black and Blue Dial Montreals. When you lay the Montreals side by side the Gold Dial and White Dial look much more expensive and impressive than the Black and Blue Dial Montreals. I have always felt that there was something amiss about the Montreals without the raised indices in silver. Thank you for your insight and opinion. Charles Rush

: at last, on ebay, a correct blue dial Montreal
: with luminous markers has turned up.
: previously all blue Montreals, that i have
: seen, have had the dial with applied
: markers. this version has only existed as a
: side note in a 1973 catalogue, and did begin
: to wonder if it existed at all.

: why i should bother anyone with this small
: detail is the huge quantity of NOS Montreal
: cases with newly made dials that have been
: for sale at many watch fairs and on ebay.
: these have had luminous markers that were
: incorrectly proportioned, no frame round the
: date window and were not even the correct
: shade of blue.

: so, take your chance and check out what a blue
: Montreal should look like without applied
: markers so you can be sure you're not buying
: a frankenwatch in the future.

: by the way, all PVD cased Montreals had black
: dials and black chapter rings, all gold
: plate Montreals have champagne dials and
: chapter rings, whilst stainless cased
: Montreals could have blue and white, all
: black, black and white or white and black
: dials with matching chapter rings. hopefully
: this will be of some help if you were
: thinking of buying an NOS case.

: by the way i have no connection or interest in
: any of the ebay auctions that may have been
: mentioned.