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Re: Heuer Automatic
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Yep, all are 1950s, when, after falling sales of chronographs following a post-war boom, Heuer decided to use spare capacity to produce wristwatches as well as chronographs. The end result though was just exposure to many more competitors than what they saw as their "comfortable niche" and the experiment largely came to an end in 1959, although a few time-only watches continued into the early '60s.

So all 3 are from somewhere between 1950 and 1959. To narrow it down at all, we have to look at the movements.

Ranfft has the AS 1580 being introduced in 1955, so that would date the first watch from somewhere between '55 and '59 (inclusive). No specific date for the ETA 2451/3 but they were available in the same sort of time frame.

Subjectively, the bar markers on the first watch more closely resemble the type of markers they were using in the early 60s, so I would guess that is the later watch and the two with more elaborate markers are earlier, but I'd stress that's just a guess.

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