Hi All,

Need help in working out what this is... Frankin watch or something else ?

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Gambba from Tag Heuer Forum helped out with a subjective look at the watch

1. The 24h markings seem too far away from the hour markers.

2. The 12 o'clock triangle is far narrower and far longer than any I've ever seen, and looks more like that of the 2000 series. However it also looks similar to the rolex marker of the time, which is where quite of the design features were influenced from.

3. The hour markers seem to be on top of the seconds markers on the outer edge of the dial, which is not the norm.

4. In theory this would be expected to be fitted with cathedral hands, however Heuer did not let parts go to waste, so not unexpected that Mercedes hands may have been used with a Monnin dial during some transition to new parts.

5. The hour hand seems see fully short, however taking into consideration how close to the center the 24h markings are maybe it's for that purpose.

6. The dual has the correct spelling of "Professionel" for it to be a Monnin.

7. The seconds hand appears to be correct and is a longer version than the norm as it extends all the way out and onto the markers on the outer edge. The pleb on it is the medium size version which is most common.

8. Movement looks correct although a closer look could verify that easily. It should be an FE4611A fitted. FE stands for France Ebauche and is something there is misinformation online still about.

9. Caseback looks to be original 844 item.

10. Case and crown are correct

11. Bezel looks to be correct for a Monnin.

12. Lume on hands and dial seem to match suggesting they are of the same period, but if newly painted could obviously be deliberately aged.

Cheers

Craig