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Original dial?...........Landeron movement!!! crown command

Weird, but it must be original!

Cheers

Gravina

: so what do we think of Lot 39, shown here ?

: Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, Pocket Watches, Clocks
: & Horological Tools / Imperial Treasures

: LOT 39

: Heuer, “Index Mobile”, case No. 3295, case No. 656.
: Made in the 1950s. Very fine 18K pink gold
: wristwatch with square button split-chronograph, register,
: tachometer and telemeter with an 18K pink gold buckle. To be
: sold without reserve
: C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, concave bezel,
: lapidated lugs, snap-on case back. D. Two-tone, black and gray
: with painted dot indexes and Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials
: for the seconds and the 30-minute register, inner minute/seconds
: division with every five Arabic numerals, outer telemeter scale,
: outermost tachometer scale. Pink gold feuille hands. M.
: 14’’’, rhodium plated, 17 jewels, straight line lever
: escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating flat balance
: spring, shock absorber, index regulator. Dial signed Heuer,
: movement signed Heuer Leonidas, case numbered.
: Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 13.5 mm.

: So it is from the 1950's, with a Heuer-Leonidas movement? Would
: you buy a Mercedes gullwing, circa 1955, with Daimler-Chrysler
: marked on the valve covers? Is this a fake or maybe a sloppy
: description in the auction catalog?

: Jeff

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