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Vintage Heuer Discussion Forum
The place for discussing 1930-1985 Heuer wristwatches, chronographs and dash-mounted timepieces. Online since May 2003. | |||||||
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here is my favorite in the Black and Orange category, one of the "poor man's Heuers" from Zodiac. Yes, they got it right in the 70's, if these big chronos are what you like.
thanks again for contributing to our Scan Day.
jeff
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strong photo . . . very strong photo, in fact, and nice presentation on the comparison of these two chronos. I've had this Longines on the "wanted" list, but missed out on a couple over the years.
: Both are steel sport watches from esteemed
: houses , but...
: One is automatic, the other is handwound.
: Both are chronographs , but...
: One uses the innovative inhouse cal12 movement,
: the other the well respected and widely used
: workhorse Valjoux72.
: Both have orange accents , but...
: One is more racing oriented, the other is
: diving oriented.
: Both are big , but...
: One has 2 registers and date, the other has 3
: registers.
: Both represent one great era of watchmaking
: history. Long live the seventies.
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