I doubt that there were 100 dials for some of the "specials".

We know, for example, that Shelby ordered exactly 24 of the 3147 N (second execution) Cobra dials. So why would Heuer have produced 100 of the dials? Seems that the customer would have been well pissed to have these 76 extras floating around (or in today's terms, overhanging the market).

We may never know the exact count, but I can't get from 24 to 100, on this type of order . . . and same for Sunray, Cougar, ARRC, Motor Age, etc.

Interesting question . . .

Jeff

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: From the info I had from the "old guys" nothing was
: produced in "less than 100" because it made no
: economic sense. Also they needed to keep back further stock of
: dials for "service" use in the future, some of which
: will have found their way into watches later. Still if it was
: 200, that is still a small number for something that was
: produced 55+ years ago. The only dials that may have been
: produced in smaller numbers than this are perhaps special orders
: like Indianapolis Speedway, MG dials or Chronomatics etc etc
: even then I would say 100 minimum dials. The lowest of any
: complete watch to date I have seen would be the 2446 screw back
: Seafarer, which uses up the 1950s dials, so I'm sure a few
: hundred dials were made only a short serial run of cases seem to
: have been run to use up leftover dials, pehaps as few as 30.