Walter great article, I have read many times already !!
Indeed Langs watch is a grail, with trhe provienence from the man who was responsible for the contact between Heuer and the army (Bundeswehr) !
Cheers
Arno

: i thought i'd share this with the heuer guys on the forum. some of
: you may be familiar with the iconic heuer "bundeswehr"
: valjoux-23 chronograph:
:

: well, heuer created and offered for consideration a cal-12 powered
: "chronomatic" version. since this was done on heuer's
: nickel and there was no requirement, it was never adopted.

: as i understand it, there are perhaps a handful of these prototypes
: that exist -- one is known to have been in gerd-r lang (of
: chronoswiss) collection and another turned up a few years ago
: via michael kobold (the eponymous founder of kobold watches).
:

: for anyone interested, i did some research into the myriad dial
: variants of the heuer bundeswehr chrono:

: http://brown-snout.com/horology/articles/heuer_bundeswehr_chrono/