Great work David. I for one really appreciate your contribution to our understanding about these wonderful Monnin pieces. As you say, there's something about them that makes them really special.

: It looks like there was. I was dubious at first over some Heuer
: dials that have Swiss made at the bottom but Professionel
: written the French way. Are they genuine or not ?

: Again a weird thing as per note 1 as I have seen monnin with both

: There must have been a point when both houses were producing as
: Heuer must have given notice to Monnin which would have included
: a certain amount of watches by both houses.

: The 005 is obviously the Swiss monnin the 844 the French

: Now I have multiple variations of monnin. Some without red numerals
: so a black normal dial. Some with cathedral hands. Some with
: different bezels. They were obviously trying to find what looked
: right for the watch at the time or was it simply a parts bin
: exercise?
: Some casebacks are stamped 844 and some are blank. I can't discount
: them as fake because no one really knows.
: Also I've seen non heuer 844 with 844 case backs so was it simply
: that any customer received a serial so the list of serials
: includes other branded 844 ?

: Thanks to a good friend I even have a possible orange quartz proto
: dial which isn't stamped Heuer but no doubt would have been.

: I've been very lucky to be able to have and have passed on so many
: monnin. They really are special. May be time to shift a few soon
: to go down another route as I did with Autavia. Time doesn't
: stand still unless they are stuffed in the safe:-)