Thank you for sharing the story, and the photos of this beautiful watch. It's especially rare to see the "full set", with the box, from the late 1960s.

Now that the Autavia Reference Table is behind us -- well, at least most of the heavy lifting -- the Camaro Reference table will be next, so these beautiful photos and the serial number are especially helpful.

Thanks again and we hope that you will be a regular here on the forum.

Jeff

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: Since the beginning of the year, I've been on a bit of a quest to
: fill a vintage Heuer void that's been nagging away at me
: incessantly. To begin with, I was thinking of the usual
: suspects, but a few months ago I decided to go for something
: less common and therefore focussed my attention on finding
: either a Montreal or Camaro in good enough original condition
: that I was prepared to add it to my collection. The Montreal
: fell by the wayside for a variety of reasons - not least cost -
: so for the last three or four months I've been searching far and
: wide for a three-register Camaro as "The Heuer One".

: The Camaro was only made for a relatively short period - from 1968
: to 1972. I think I'm right in saying that the two register
: variants were fitted with Valjoux 773X movements, but all of the
: three register versions had the venerable handwound Valjoux 72 -
: as found in the Daytona - inside the case. I really do like this
: model; the 37mm case is a lovely size, the styling is both
: sporty and elegant and they're rare enough to be genuine
: collector's pieces that you won't stumble across very often.

: Ironically, and having missed a few on eBay and with various
: overseas dealers, a member on TZ-UK noticed a comment I made on
: one of Stewart's threads over there and dropped me a line;
: consequently, I'm now the delighted owner of a really, really
: nice example of a 7220NT from 1971. Not only have I found the
: watch I wanted, but this specific watch was sold in 1972 and
: then spent the next thirty years of it's life stored in a safe
: on behalf of the first owner. On his death it was
: "released" to his son but was returned again for
: storage after very little wear. Before I bought it the movement
: was stripped down and serviced, and it's now in my possession
: wearing the original Heuer strap and with the original box and
: hang tag. Here's a few pics from when that work was underway,
: and from which you can see that aside from a little tritium loss
: on the dial it really is like a near-new watch, inside and
: out...

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: I can't begin to tell you how thankful I am to Brian that the
: initial contact was made and the transaction so smoothly
: facilitated; I'd also like to say thanks to Stewart, who is
: consistent in his desire to help and has been an absolute star.
: This is a far, far nicer example than I thought I would find and
: it's already one of my favourites. Effectively, I'm just the
: second owner of a 40 year-old watch. How cool is that?

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