Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Oct 08, 2016

LOT 225

HEUER CARRERA CHRONOGRAPH RETAILED BY ABERCHROMBIE & FITCH CO. STEEL Heuer/Leonidas, "Carrera." Made in the 1960s. Fine and rare, water resistant stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph and registers. Dial, case and movement signed, case also signed Leonidas.

Two-body, polished and brushed, flat bezel, lapidated lugs, screwed-down case back. Matte silver with applied steel faceted baton indexes and luminous dots, outer 1/5th seconds track, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12-hour registers. Luminous steel baton hands. Cal. Val. 72, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, index regulator.