: Best guess would be only the Autavia and Carrera are in tens
: of thousands, the majority of the others in the thousands with
: some of the rarest watches only making the hundreds. As far as
: the so-called Poor Man's, it's really not clear - the rebadging
: was a bit of a change in policy compared to Heuer typically
: keeping the budget ranges in house in previous generations. For
: something like your Zodiac, I'd say it was a rather small amount
: compared to the pretty popular and big-selling Heuer-badged
: version. If I had to put a number on it, I'd still avoid the
: issue a bit and say it was significantly less than 1 in
: 10.

: We know the majority of Heuer's business were in the
: stopwatches; Jack Heuer gave a figure of 1 chronograph for every
: 20 stopwatches at the Heuer collector's summit, if I remember
: correctly from the reports. Heuer's total annual volume, even
: with the timers, was less than Rolex's (estimated) volume for
: example. So I'd say watch production at Heuer was always less
: than Omega, Rolex and Breitling, even during their peak.

: But worth remembering we always deal with hearsay, estimates
: and plain old guesses when we talk volumes, they tended never to
: make those a matter of public record. Fairly safe ground just to
: say Heuer's watch production was on the low side compared to the
: other three you mention though.

Thanks, I've been wondering about that. I had no idea that Heuer made so many more stopwatche vs wristwatches back when.