: As Kav says, Heuer was pretty liberal with the different case/hand
: configurations, so maybe let's not dismiss this immediately.
: Let's try use the occam's razor method, as discussed in a previous
: post.

: Two hypotheses:

: 1) It is a stupid put together

: 2) Sometime in the mid 70's, Heuer's design team decided to create
: a one off prototype of a new Autavia case. We need to ignore
: that the basic shape of the Autavia case stayed the same from
: the late 60's to the late 80's, but this was a super secret
: prototype. In this super secret prototype, the Heuer design
: staff, in a fit of anarchy (maybe it was 1977?) decided to
: randomly select non matching hour/minute, second and sub dial
: hands. Not only that, the designers thought it would look good
: if the dial was slightly off centre from the (non matching)
: tachy ring. Because it was so secret, they managed to hide it
: from every Heuer expert in the world, including people who
: worked for Heuer. To preserve this secrecy, the original design
: team are still locked in a secret vault deep under the alps.

: I don't want to force people into any conclusions, so I leave it
: for you to decide which is the simpler and more probable
: hypothesis.

: I understand the Antiquorum staff can't be experts in every single
: watch brand, so might miss something subtle like that the hands
: of a third execution Autavia are used on a second execution
: case, but this is just plain stupid. Even my ten year old son
: could have checked onthedash for 5 minutes and seen that no such
: watch could ever come out of Heuer. I think on vintage watch
: forum's across the internet watch obsessives are often to quick
: to jump to conclusions and are fussy beyond reason ("I have
: carbon dated the lume on the hands and it is 13 hours later than
: the dial, so I threw the watch away"), so sometimes I
: sympathise with Antiquorum but in this case I think they should
: be ashamed.