The largest independent, non-commercial, consumer-oriented resource on the Internet for owners, collectors and enthusiasts of fine wristwatches. Online since 1998. | ||||||||
|
||||||||
|
Vintage Heuer Discussion Forum
The place for discussing 1930-1985 Heuer wristwatches, chronographs and dash-mounted timepieces. Online since May 2003. | |||||||
| |||||||
|
: Is this really a 7753T, or should it be a 7753ST ?
: I also question no "T Swiss" or "Swiss" on the
: dial.
: Mr. Moss, comments please.
Well, it would never be just ST - silver is considered a default dial for the first gen and is only ever used as a suffix if there is nothing else to say about the dial. Hence the D suffix means silver dial with decimal scale, T silver dial with tachy etc and plain silver is simply S. With the 7753 Ts, it looks like early ones are all silver/silver and it's possible that silver/black becomes the default late in the production run, in which case it could be that they were simply referred to as 7753 Ts. If the silver/black dial was optional before that, then it should conform to the schema used internally of (dial colour:register colour:scale) and be a 7753 SNT in the same way a black/white dialled example is an NST. Externally, the references may well have been presented as the usual T and NT on the basis that as long as the customer got the dial they wanted, no-one externally much cared what the suffix was.
The absence of Swiss is pretty unusual though. I only know it on the Belgian Congo 7753s and a few of the ones with promotional dials where the logo obscures it:
For a normal production dial to be missing it perhaps speaks of some refinishing having been done.
Chronocentric and zOwie site design and contents (c) Copyright 1998-2005, Derek Ziglar; Copyright 2005-2008, Jeffrey M. Stein. All rights reserved. Use of this web site constitutes acceptance of the terms of use. | CONTACT | TERMS OF USE | TRANSLATE |