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Vintage Heuer Discussion Forum
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Oh gosh, where to start
- wrong shade of blue for the dial (it looks too violet)
- double lume dots at 12
- the remaining lume dots are set too far out on the circular track
- Heuer sheild wrong size / print type / lacking seriphs / spacing
- Heuer sheild set too low on the dial
- non-genuine hour & minute hands (i suspect not even service hands as the red line travels the length either side of the thin lume)
- pointy rather than blunt register hands
- the word Swiss set too close to the bottom register
- the font of the numerals in the registers vary between looking the correct type too wildly different fron an original
- register print variances in heavy to light print
Ah there's bound to be more but at least it probably started life as a genuine dial as the battons look to be the correct type (small consolation for some poor unsuspecting ebay bidder beleiving its the real deal).
Cheers - Darren
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