Breaking: Rare Vintage Heuer Autavia Found! Michael Stockton Aug 19. Between the lugs of the Heuer Autavia 2446 2nd Execution Lume Dial. Note the 89xxx serial number. Dec 14, 2016 Hi, I found this Heuer AUTAVIA 2446 C from an individual who claimed the watch was purchased from Germany about 15 years ago. I noticed the serial number. Lot 226, The Geneva Watch Auction: TWO, Heuer, Geneva Auction 7 & 8 November 2015 6:30pm. The present Autavia Reference 3646 bearing serial number 82848.

Phillips has published a magnificent auction catalog,, with stunning photos and detailed descriptions of these watches. Consider this story a companion to the Heuer Parade catalog, placing the Crosthwaite & Gavin Collection, and each of the watches individually, into a broader context. El Amante Perfecto Pdf Free.  While the auction catalog presents the watches according to themes – chronographs for racing, for pilots, for the water, etc.

– we will take a chronological approach, describing the different generations in which Heuer produced these chronographs. All this changed in 1962, when Jack Heuer – then the 30 year-old head of the company – introduced a new model, with the name “Autavia” written across the top of the dial.

Combining the words AUTomobile and AVIAtion, the name staked Heuer’s claim, as the watch of choice for racers, rallyists and pilots. The next year saw the introduction of the Carrera, the beautiful sounding name that evoked the epic car race across Mexico. The Camaro came in 1968, completing the line-up of chronographs that stood at the center of Heuer’s model lines for the 1960s.

Heuer’s line-up of watches changed dramatically in 1969, as Heuer became one of the first brands to offer automatic chronographs. The 1960s model line-up was expanded with the addition of the radical “circle-in-the-square” Monaco, and in order to accommodate the larger Caliber 11 automatic movement, the cases for the Autavia and Carrera shifted from the traditional round cases of the 1960s, to larger, C-shaped cases. Thus Heuer marched into the 1970s with its “Big Three”, the Autavia, Carrera and Monaco. In the mid-1970s, Heuer led the electronic era with its introduction of the Chronosplit chronograph, which featured dual LED / LCD displays.