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The Master Has Spoken: No How, No Way / Case Closed

Our best expert here in the US, who was affiliated with Heuer during all relevant periods (1960's through early 2000's), has reviewed the six photos shown below, and he is absolutely certain, beyond any doubt, that Heuer never used these dials in its Monacos and never issued these dials as "service dials". He confirms that he never saw such dials during his career with Heuer and that it is impossible that Heuer would have used dials of this poor quality, even during the tough years for the company.

So we can speculate about who made them, and how and when they made them, but our definitive answer is that they were not made by or for Heuer.

As they say on the detective shows, "Case closed!"

Jeff





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: Hi all,
: Interesting discussion about these fake, re-issue and other dials.
: Where does quality ends and where do we accept a lower finishing
: as ok? I don't want to judge a company, but anyway the quality
: of the Heuer dials varies. This just means that the acceptance
: process wasn't a fixed process, but the (no) go decision was
: made/based on a personal feeling.
: It'possible that the dials as seen in the examples of Jeff are slip
: offs, used while servicing or replacing an old sticky dial. On
: what do I base my opinion :
: - no large quantities are known
: - variety in dials - different service points ?
: - cases are often original
: - these dials are often seen while using service hands
: Best regards from Belgium,

: Gianni

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