: Hello,

: Related to the topic of Kyle from yesterday.

: I just did a quick search in my photo archives and already found
: three First execution Autavia's with also such a red central
: seconds hand.

: At first I obviously also thought these were non
: original/repainted. The whites only seem to be "more
: pointy" or sharp due to the fact of the white paint. The
: red ones seem to have softer/rounded edges, but that's only
: visual appearance, they are in fact identical shape.

: The ones I found in my archives were all in early serial number
: range. About the 2 register reference 3646, one had 488xx
: serial, the other 489xx. The three register had a 494xx serial
: number.

: A few of my other observations with these watches: they all had the
: original early domed crown, early small pushers and also
: important the "thin lume insert" dauphine hands as
: they were advertised in an early Heuer brochure.

: For me these "thin lume insert" dauphine hands are
: certainly very early and are for sure earlier then the
: "wide lume" dauphine hands. I even tend to believe
: that these "thin lume insert" dauphine hands are
: actually first execution, so earlier then the famous full lume
: dauphines. If we look at the Heuer watches produced before the
: first execution Autavia's were produced, we see these "thin
: lume insert" dauphine hands on a variety of other Heuer
: chronographs already. It is my belief that the full lume
: dauphines were introduced on the 1st execution Autavia's only
: after they were in production for some time with the "thin
: lume insert" dauphines. And then after some time in
: production Heuer might have experienced some issues/troubles
: with the full lume dauphine hands, they started to use the
: "wide lume" dauphine hands.

: Ofcourse, please note, these thoughts are only based on my personal
: experience and I do not pretend it to be the only truth.

: Thanks,
: abel.

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