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Re: Military Autavias ?
In Response To: Military Autavias ? ()

Wow! This is very interesting.
Not only the watches in itself, but the context of it all.

Being portuguese myself, I can confirm that the dials indeed mention Armed Forces for all three portuguese ex-colonies in Africa. Also, if we assume the usual dates for those compression cases, this put these watches right in the middle of independence wars going about in these countries. In which "side" is a hard guess, though.

My question, are these actual Heuers or just something else using the same compression case, as we see so many brands from that time doing so? I can quite recall seeing a JLC and a Breguet with the same case in their museum.

Cheers,
Rodrigo

: Spotted these 3 military Autavia,

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: anyone would have a clue of what they really are ?

: Thanks,

: Laurent

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