: Hello Mark,

: I think your answer...or better your question in the end is worth
: posing.

: I have my personal thought about this, let me explain. So you were
: saying "...but then why do we have a gold bridge that has
: been through the process?" An explaination could be that
: Heuer had such a big number of ready stamped "11"
: bridges that they still had huge stock of those when they
: started to produce the improved caliber 12. Heuer was still a
: very healthy company and wouldn't bother about the overstock of
: those caliber 11 bridges. So, first they produced the silver
: caliber 12 and afterwards the "gold" caliber 12 takes
: place....As stocks were running out and Heuer preferred to
: re-use its dead stock from caliber 11 bridges (which they still
: had plenty). They simply had to "erase" the 11 and
: afterwards stamp the 12 in the pit, ofcourse the
: "gold" finishing was also done.

: I think this is a very possible and logic explaination. In my
: humble experience over the last couple of years I only saw these
: caliber 12 with the 12 in the little blanking pit in the later
: Autavia models, such as the 11630MH, 11630T and the
: 11063-series. Also the Diver 100 were mostly equipped with
: these. So I think at the end of Heuer, before it became TAG
: Heuer...they used as much as old stock they could...this means
: also re-using the stock of the caliber 11 bridges...after they
: were modified in house.

: Please note, these are only my personal thoughts and I don't claim
: them to be true...I just think this is the way it could have
: happened.

: Other thoughts??

: What a great forum this is!!

: Cheers,
: Abel.