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My Usual Request: Serial Numbers, Please
In Response To: Skipperera Roll Call ()

Great to see this roll-call . . . will be all the more useful with some serial numbers included!!

Jeff

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: I am wondering how many Skippereras are out there. I am missing
: any?

: The extant Skippereras I know of are:

: 1. The one in the TAG Heuer museum:
:
: http://www.chronocentric.com/forums/heuer/index.cgi?md=read;id=24831

: (Probably the same one worn by this girl?)

: http://onthedash.com/pics4docs/CH2013/GreeterA.jpg

: 2. Nic Green's, which has FAB. SUISSE on the dial:
:
: http://www.onthedash.com/Guide/_Chronographs/68.Skipper/b.Ref_7754.jpg
: http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/2394/skipper4.jpg
: http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/3439/p1040635f.jpg

: 3. Noodia's (a plain one):
:
: http://www.onthedash.com/Guide/_Chronographs/68.Skipper/b.Ref_7754/31Skipper7754.jpg
:
: http://www.onthedash.com/Guide/_Chronographs/68.Skipper/b.Ref_7754/32Skipper7754.jpg
: http://www.flickr.com/photos/noodia/7164426631/

: 4. A refinished dial one found on Amer's facebook photos:
:
: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150563616320207&set=pb.805120206.-2207520000.1351726418&type=3&permPage=1

: 5. Mine, which has MEISTER printed on the dial

: 6. This one on OnTheDash, which has newer Carrera hands (thicker
: and shinier) plus a white chrono seconds hand. It is owned by an
: OTD member:
: http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/8366/p1040634.jpg
:
: http://www.onthedash.com/Guide/_Chronographs/68.Skipper/b.Ref_7754/51Skipper7754SW.jpg
:
: http://www.onthedash.com/Guide/_Chronographs/68.Skipper/b.Ref_7754/52Skipper7754SW.jpg

: 7. The one currently on eBay with replacement hands (I have no
: relation to the seller):
:
: http://www.ebay.com/itm/1968-HEUER-Carrera-SKIPPER-CHRONOGRAPH-Stainless-Steel-Watch-Band-7753-7754-/281057376734?_trksid=p5197.m1992&_trkparms=aid%3D111000%26algo%3DREC.CURRENT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D14%26meid%3D5219720649938941059%26pid%3D100015%26prg%3D1006%26rk%3D1%26sd%3D281057376734%26

: Others that could be out there:
: -Colin Chapman's- who knows if that is one of the above or is still
: out there
:
: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_501KYmW5HIc/TEhNdzjFOMI/AAAAAAAABWk/RjqpSYZaM98/s1600/70AT-009.jpg
: http://i33.servimg.com/u/f33/16/93/50/58/carrer10.jpg

: -John Ludley mentioned on here that he owns one. I don't know if
: his is one of them listed above:
:
: http://chronocentric.com/forums/heuer/index.cgi?page=1;md=read;id=60004

: -The TAG Heuer website piece on "Carreras of the Sea"
: shows a Skipperera with an Autavia central second hand that
: might be one more in existence separate from those above.
: http://50yearscarrera.tagheuer.com/#/carreras-for-the-sea/
:
: http://50yearscarrera.tagheuer.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/HSK.C31102.C-1968.jpg

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