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Posting re "Shauntavia" on Instagram

Shown below is a posting on Instagram, by WristIcons -- https://www.instagram.com/p/B-SuXYiHwSd/

You will see the watch listed for sale on the Wrist Icons website, here -- https://www.wristicons.com/heuer-autavia-73663-arabic-military-kaf-shauntavia.html

I have pasted the posting (and a couple of the images) here, so that people may be able to find it by Google, etc. Some of the information is not quite right, but it's a good looking watch.

You can see the OnTheDash guide to the Shauntavia, here -- http://www.onthedash.com/shauntavia-guide/

Jeff

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WRIST ICONS brings you a puuuurfect 👌military Heuer Autavia reference 73663 with Arabic radial dial for the Kenyan Air Force (KAF) also known as the “Shauntavia”. This is a very nice looking special military Heuer. This one is soo ri-di-cu-lous-ly good looking that I would immediately 🗣sign in for service! 👨‍✈️ All the Autavias to ever come with numerals instead of applied indexes have a military past. Two were adopted by the German army (73633 BUNDESWEHR) and the well-known 1550 SG often seen with the 3H dial. And the two others by Kenya's Air Force. The KAF Autavia most seen is reference 741603 which is a two-register chronograph, with a date at 6 o'clock and red accents on the hands and dial. The second KAF Heuer what we have here is the three register manual wound Autavia with the beloved orange accents reminiscent of the famous Orange Boy.

Both references have elongated Arabic numerals. They were made for the Kenyan Air Force this may have been a special military specification for increased legibility in the dark. According to Alexandre Gothbi of Phillips these watches were produced in very small numbers, it is believed that no more than 250 examples were ever delivered with a small portion that were not issued. Further we have read on the internet, that Heuer does not take ownership of these watches, with no references in their database so they won't confirm how many or for how long they were made.

Reference 73663 was introduced in the early 1970s, with a three-register dial layout as the originals from the 1960s. The dials were in 3 versions, a panda, reverse panda and all black. This particular 73663 Shauntavia has the reverse panda lay out.

These watches are nicknamed “Shauntavia” named after the collector Shaun Wainstein who first published an article about these watches on the Heuer forum called onthedash. Jeff, the forum’s founder then named these watches Shauntavias.

Check the site for more 📸! WRIST ICONS, at your service 👊

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