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Poor Man's Version of the Heuer Daytona ? ? ?
In Response To: FOUND: Vetta '70 with Cal12 ()

Bears some resemblance to the Heuer Daytona (shown below). I will make some inquiries and see whether I can learn whether or not Heuer made these.

Jeff

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: Hi all,

: saturday afternoon I found a nice Vetta that mounts a Buren cal12.
: When I entered in the watch shop (one of the oldest watch shop
: repair of the town) in a city near where I live and ask for some
: Heuer vintage timepieces the old watchmaker laughed a lot and
: told me: "Many others entered in my shop in these last
: years, I have nothing anymore...".
: So before exiting I asked if he could have other watches that mount
: a Cal12, so this time a smile grew in his face and told:
: "Maybe I could have in the safe an old Vetta that I retired
: from a client many years ago", and that is (sorry for the
: extreme poor quality of the images, taken few minutes ago in
: artificial poor light):

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: The main bridge is marked "JRGK" (not Heuer obviously)
: and the watchmaker told me that JRGK was the swisse assembler of
: the Buren movement, I don't know if is true but I have taken
: this for good....

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: And this is as it should be if restored (images taken from an ad on
: an Italian local magazine):

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: Can anyone tell me something more about this watch?
: The watchmaker told me that it is all original but this isn't
: important for me as I took it only for the value of the movement
: (good to make spare parts).... This evening I winded it and
: tomorrow I will wear it at work to check the timekeeping, but I
: can say that everything is working as it should :-)

: Thanks for looking, cheers.

: Gianluca

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