Hello all.

This is to announce the latest addition to Jeff's On The Dash site - a reference table detailing the Heuer dive watches that came out in the period before the TAG takeover.

There are watches in the 1000 and 2000 series that may not be covered, as they continued into the TAG-Heuer era but we carried on with the OTD focus of watches from before the latest ownership era.

For those wanting to get straight into the table and not read all of my preamble(!), it can be found here:

http://www.onthedash.com/docs/DiveWatchRefTable.html

and also incorporated into the MOAT (Mother of All Tables) at: http://www.onthedash.com/Guide/Master_Reference.php4

I personally think this is a great addition to OTD. Information on the divers was perhaps a little lacking there before and this is always an area that has stirred the interest of a number of collectors within the community and there are a number who consider divers their favourite Heuers. Of course, there is a lot of diversity within this range of watches, so to say divers are a favourite might be a little misleading - there is more diversity than I expected at the outset, to be honest, and some watches are quite unique within Heuer's output. Where else in the range will you find a bright orange dial, or one covered completely in lume material?

I noticed an increase in interest in, and questions about, the various divers in the middle of last year (2009). This inspired me to go and create a spreadsheet of divers from those that appeared in catalogues and price lists, with the aim of creating a reference table for them. It was pretty obvious that my knowledge of divers would be far too vague to create a definitive table and we soon engaged with some people more expert in the field.

The table then is a collaborative effort between these experts:

Paul Gavin, David Chalmers, Jarl Rehn-Erichsen, Marius Jensen and Stewart Morley, all of who provided the bulk of the input for the table on details, differences and layout

and myself, providing that initial input and experience of having gone through all this on the Carrera table and, of course, Jeff with his usual searching questions and putting the whole thing together on the OTD site.

We hope that it's useful and enjoyable.

But! I called it a definitive table above, but in our world of collecting that is quite possibly never true. What we would welcome now is your input to the table, whether that be comments, questions, photos, serial numbers and all the other suggestions and information that will help us build a great divers section on OTD.

Contact details for the owners of the table are included on the linked pages above - first contacts are Paul Gavin and Jeff Stein, who (I am told) will welcome all your inputs. I too look forward to the influx of pics and threads concerning divers in the weeks and months to come; Jeff was even thinking of buying one to add to his collection!

Now, go read!

Mark