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I'm pretty sure that I read somewhere on here that some of these didn't have the 'Swiss' text on the lower sub-dial.
Maybe that's a load of tosh, so don't take my word for it !
Stewart
: Hi and welcome to the forum!
: I'm no Autavia expert but that looks pretty straight to me. The
: crown looks thick, but I think that's more to do with me taking
: issue with Heuer putting overly thick crowns on Autavias than
: that your watch is incorrect! The "Swiss" text is
: missing from the 12-hour register:
:
:
: but it looks as though there might have been some attempt to clean
: the dial patina in that area perhaps.
: The one thing that stands out to me as being incorrect is the bezel
: insert. The lume dot is more associated with a dive watch - I
: would expect a plain triangle at 12, typically on the MH
: (minutes and hours) bezel as on the example above. Early small
: register 2446s did sometimes come with an hours-only bezel, but
: the typography is again different and this is the screw-back
: case as opposed to your snap example:
:
:
: Judging from the forum, it's pretty difficult to source replacement
: bezel inserts so we do see Autavias fairly regularly with
: non-original ones.
: Maybe one of the Autavia afficionados can step in and point out
: anything I missed?
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