Hi Tony,

Very beautiful Carrera, and very cool story behind it. Congrats on the watch, and congrats on your first post!

Cheers
Carlo

: This is my first post although I have been lurking around here for
: a few years gaining knowledge and a few Heuers along the way.
: Interestingly I started out looking for a Monaco 113B or blue
: Silverstone and yet have somehow acquired neither watch and
: probably never will now the way the prices are going. However I
: have managed to pick up a few other interesting Heuers over the
: years and have derived a lot of pleasure from getting to know
: the other models. The purpose of this post is that I have
: recently acquired a Heuer that I thought might be of interest to
: the community.

: This is a Carrera 7753S that was part of a batch that were
: apparently issued to station masters and guards who worked for
: the Victorian Railway Company, the local railway operator here
: back in the late 60s and 70s. A few of these watches turned up
: in a sale of a railway watch collection last year and with the
: help of Rory Macdonald, an excellent local watchmaker, I was
: lucky enough to acquire this 7753S stamped VRC 19 from the
: collection as it had by far the best dial of all the 7753s in
: there, Rory also did a lovely sympathetic restoration on the
: watch for me and the watch is now on one of Giuliano's fabulous
: straps. I saw a case back stamped VRC 22 in the railway watch
: collection so the VRC obviously acquired a fair few of these
: 7753S for use by staff at the time, must have been rather nice
: to be issued with such a lovely watch to help time those train
: services to Bendigo and Ballarat.

: I am very, very happy with this particular watch and feel very
: fortunate to have been able to acquire such a nice Carrera with
: an interesting piece of local history attached, however can't
: seem to post pictures in the image section so links below, I do
: hope they work......

: Tony

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