Hello Eric,

great report as always. Although the changes to a standard Carrera Dato are very small, the inner bezel gives them a totally different look.

Does anyone here know, how all the military forces purchased their Heuers? Has there a been a collaboration between the Heuer SA and the forces or did they purchase the timepieces through several authorized dealers? Like the ASPREY Rolexes for UAE.

It would be interesting to have the serials between the lugs. But on the other hand, we don't have so many Datos. Serialrange is very small either way.

Kind regards,
Manuel

: I want to share information regarding the Jordanian Air Force
: Carreras that I have collected.

: First, it is interesting to note that in the Military Watch
: Resource forum Arno Michael Haslinger has said he has seen two
: of them, which would make at least 4 known then.

: http://www.mwrforum.net/forums/showthread.php?t=15698

: Here is his from the auction:
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: http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/17865/lot/72/?search_query=1&division=&passages=True&earliest_first=True&value_data_currency=GBP&value_data_order_spec=%5B%27-not_published_results%27%2C+%27-refer_dept%27%2C+%27-exhibition%27%2C+%27-value_low%27%5D&back_to_year=2003&date_range=past&main_index=lot&department=CLK%2CWCH&query=carrera&create_facets=False&value_data_range_display
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: Unfortunately, the last two Eastern Arabic numerals are blurred and
: I don't have any pictures of the caseback from the preview.

: Here are the Eastern Arabic numerals (also called Arabic–Indic
: numerals and Arabic Eastern numerals):
: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Arabic_numerals

: As an aside, numbers are read from left to right in Arabic and
: Persian, while text is read from right to left.

: However, it is interesting to note that the first three digits on
: the Haslinger watch are 808.

: Both of the other known watches (owned by Paul of Heuerworld.com
: and MickTock) start with 807. They also have the sīn and jīm
: characters on the right side, which a gentleman on the MWR forum
: suggests "might be an abbreviation for silah al-jaw
: ("air force" or could also be translated into
: "weapon of hight" [SIC])."

: Here are the Arabic characters:
: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_alphabet

: I think the characters stand for Silāḥ ul-Jawu al-Malakī
: ’al-Urdunī or the Royal Jordanian Air Force.

: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Jordanian_Air_Force

: Paul's number on the caseback is 80775:

: http://www.heuerworld.com/photo_8672367.html

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: I hope that this is interesting. Does anyone else knows of any
: other examples?