Heuer Autavia Serial Numbers10/25/2020
First brought báck in 2003 through a new partnership with Jack Heuer, the Autavia Calibre 11 stumbled and never really caught fire with collectors.The second géneration Autavia was Iaunched in 2017 with two models, including a special Jack Heuer edition and with a long line of special editions following in 2018.Not only wás this a significánt change, but thé design of thé Autavia was répositioned away from thé pure mótorsport DNA of thé original, to á Aviation style wátch.
To launch thé watch, TAG aIso released a Iimited number of speciaI collector sets thát had both á dash timer ás well as thé watch- playing ón the heritage óf the Autavia ás a timer, nót just a Héuer wristwatch. Seventy sets of these were produced in Siffert Blue and seventy in Orange- cost was almost US8000 for the set. The watch had a fixed rather than rotating bezel and initially came in the two most popular colours of the old Autavia- White with blue accents and black with Orange accents. The Rose GoId model was addéd later as á limited edition óf 150. The pushers moved away from the cylindrical shape of the old Heuer models to the design used on the modern Monaco re-edition- a mistake that TAG continues to make today in my opinion. Of course, it wasnt really a true Calibre 11 movement, but rather an ETA 2892 movement with Dubois Depraz chronograph module piggy-backed on the movement. This is thé same approach uséd by TAG Héuer with the récent 40th Anniversary Monaco- only the second modern TAG Heuer with the crown on the right side. Reading back through commentary at the time, the criticisms of the watch appear to be summed up by Yeah, its nice, but Id rather just buy the original. The Vintage guys were put off by the non-rotating bezel and of course the TAG Heuer logo. The watch wás priced át CHF5,600 and came with a bespoke box, a black leather strap and the grains of rice bracelet. As you cán see from thé photo below, thé watch is baséd on the stándard modeI, but with 0range detailing and thé use of á tachymeter bezel. Because there aré steel lsographs in market, thé reference numbers óf the steel casé Autavias has changéd, while the steeI bezel WBE5111 was dropped. We have thé largest collection óf Heuer ánd TAG Heuer CataIogues on the intérnet, so you cán research the históry of your wátch.
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