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Viewing the "Heuer Carrera" Under the "Zodiac"
In Response To: This is very interesting, keep finding them! ()

Mark:

OK, here's the run-down, re visibility of the overprinting:

  • With the naked eye, at a casual look or glance: Cannot see the overprinting or anything unusual . . . no clue at all.
  • With the naked eye, under perfect lighting, studying the dial carefully, you can see some irregularity in the paint and the faint outline of elements of the Heuer / shield and individual letters in Carrera
  • With 10X loupe under perfect lighting: You can pick out elements of the Heuer / shield and the individual letters of "Carrera".
  • With a macro lens, under perfect lighting: It took 50 photos for me to get the three that I posted. From most angles, you will not see any clue of the overprinting . . . the "Zodiac" looks entirely normal / the finish on the paint looks perfect.
Of course, the most intriguing question: Has anyone ever taken a Zodiac, Hamilton or Clebar, and tried to turn it into a Heuer Carrera? I would think that this would be very difficult to do well / impossible for it to go undetected!!

Let me add that all this is with the crystal in place . . . I imagine that it would all be much easier with the dial exposed.

Jeff

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: A question to the owners - is the original text visible to the
: naked eye or does it take concerted efforts to be able to see
: it? I'm thinking the latter as this was only discovered
: relatively recently.

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