I visit much too rarely - and have to thank Jeff for the kind words about my IG feed.

Yes, I'm primarily a Breitling guy, but also collect other outstanding chronograph brands, Heuer, of course, but also Jardur, Excelsior Park, Gallet and Enicar.

So whatever Jim really wore is fine with me, he clearly had excellent taste in watches - but we have no picture of Jim wearing that Gallet Multichron 12 "Jim Clark", just a letter from the guy he gave it to.

This picture has been widely discussed:

Breitling in "The Book" (and others in several articles) claim it is a Top Time ref. 810 - but it clearly is not, the subdial distance is just too small, it might be a ref. 765 with a LIP co-brand dial, as these had the larger subdials of the Co-Pilot, but no rotating bezel, which is clearly missing here.

The Enicar guys claim it is a Sherpa Graph, but the lugs seem much too thin for the Sherpa case ?
We'll never really know what Jim is wearing here.

But the watch Jim Clark was clearly wearing often in 1967 is a Breitling without doubt, a Navitimer ref. 806.

Here we see Jim Clark, Graham Hill, Colin Chapman and Keith Duckworth; Jim wearing his Navitimer. Le Mans, July 02, 1967

doubts ?

if that still seems inconclusive, here we have a picture of Jim and his Lotus, Monte Carlo 1967

very clearly a Twin Plane Navitimer ref. 806

we have no way of knowing what Graham Hill wore in that first shot, but it might well have been the same watch we see him wearing at the Vienna Auto Show with Nina Rindt ?

a Twin Plane Navitimer ref. 806 ;)

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thank you, Jeff - and the real, confirmed Jim Clark watch ;)

Welcome Fred!! Yes, You Do Have a Heuer or Two

Re: thank you, Jeff - and the real, confirmed Jim Clark watc

Pictures from my blog!

pictures on yr blog are excellent and many more there, wow!