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Found: Serial Number on My Paintless Wonder = 157200

I cannot explain how I possibly "missed" seeing the serial number some months ago -- maybe the adrenalin, maybe the excitement of the moment, maybe it was too late and I had been sleep-deprived . . . maybe I had not removed the strap [hard to believe that I would make this error!!]. But in any case, I took another look last night and there it was, 157 200 . . . exactly 11 numbers later than Glen's paintless wonder. So we can imagine that both these Monacos were produced in the same timeframe and both used this same lot of bad paint!!

I will post photos of the serial number soon, but wanted to share this news.

Jeff

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: Here we have my 1133 Heuer Monaco Chronomatic with the
: "paintless wonder" dial similar to Jeff Steins
: watch,excuse the condition i have been wearing it as my everyday
: watch over the last few months mine is marked with the model
: number under the lugs and serial on mine is 157189, these
: earlier monacos must have had a finish fault with the dials as
: mine like jeffs has the "bleeding" sub dials and the
: central part of the dial the blue colour has sort of washed out,
: mine also has different hands to the others i think these are
: the same hands used on the late 60's early 70s autavias

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