Hi Julien.

Nice early charcoal dial, the only real black marks I can see on it are... well, the lack of black marks on the hands. They should have a black stripe below the lume to the base of the hands, as on this 1153:

The stripe is only painted on though and can be fragile - the hands on the watch have been handled for reluming and the stripes may have been lost then, but they do look the right shape and length. Handset and dial are early, tachy scale is of the later type - not impossible, but if you have the first three digits of the serial number, that will help.

At the start of the year, I found manual second gen Carreras to be underperforming a little price-wise - a number went for below 1000 €, which I would consider to be below the natural range for these. Giving a wide range, I'd usually see these between 1250 € and 1750 € for good to very good examples; only the best watches will really make more than that in general sales, but you may find dealers asking more.

They're a good entry point into vintage Carreras though, parts availability and servicing knowledge for the Valjoux 773x family is fine and they're a handsome watch. Much the same look as the 1153 automatics but for less cost.

I'm fond of my 73453:

though it's between straps at the moment!