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Re: Sequence of Camaro Hands
In Response To: Sequence of Camaro Hands ()

dear jeff and community,

first i have to say i love these camaros!! a camaro was my very first heuer years ago and it´s still one of my favorite watches of all time, beside all that hype around autavias and carreras (which are for sure also awesome ;)) !!
i guess i have owned and sold around 30 camaro-pieces over the years and seen about 50 more.. it feels like i had just every single version from pandas, exotics all tachy and non-tachy-versions, two and three register, datos.

honestly it´s still confusing to me as well which dial- and handcombination have been built to which refference in which timeperiod but with all the experience i could collect about these pieces i´m just sure about two things:

1: regarding your question, definitely both handversions are correct, just that you will find the broader hands only in tachymeter-versions and mostly in exotic-dials or goldies. i have never seen broader hands in nontachywatches with singlecoloured dials.
2: to me it feels like the camaro was maybe something like a playground for the watchmakers.. except that mentioned "broader-hand-issue" almost every colour-combination in hands and dial could be possible. for sure it could have happened that in some cases hands have been replaced but i have seen watches with similar dials and two coloured hands or also with just one.. broader sweeping chrono-hand or the thinner usual one.. and what makes me think that these have been the original ones belonging to the watch is just how they very similarly aged and patinated compared to dial, lume, case and so on..

jeff i have sended you allready some serials for the table over the years, but it would be my pleasure to send you every single serial from the camaros i have owned which i have in my archive.
you know that i´m really looking forward to that camaro-table for quite a while now :)) ...would be a great addition and give the camaros the attention they have definitely earned.

yours,
andee

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