Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 13, 2016

LOT 344

HEUER DASHBOARD CLASSIC RALLY PAIR Heuer "Super Autavia" & "Monte-Carlo". Made between 1958-1967. Two, fine, chromed dashboard clocks with time of day and time-of-trip chronograph and a 60-second chronograph race timer with progressive 60-minute register and digital 12-hour register, and decimal dial.

A) Two-body, circular on a square backplate drilled for mounting, reeded rotating bezel, large winding crown for start/stop and reset, button at 1 for start/stop without reset. Black with luminous Arabic numerals, outer minute track with fifths of a second divisions, outermost numerals 1-12 on inclined ring for the rotating bezel, subsidiary dials for the seconds and 30-minute registers. Lozenge and baton hands. 18''', rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating flat balance spring, shock absorber index regulator, hack feature. B) Two-body, circular on a square backplate drilled for mounting, reeded rotating bezel, large winding crown for start/stop and reset, button at 1 for start/stop without reset. Black with luminous Arabic 60-minute numerals for the 60-minute register, outer minute track with fifths of a second divisions, outermost decimal scale, aperture for the 12-hour register. Arrow and baton hands. 18''', rhodium-plated, 7 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating flat balance spring, index regulator.