Maker: |
Heuer |
Model: |
Bundeswehr |
Reference No.: |
1550SG |
Date: |
circa 1975/80 |
Serial No.: |
86XX |
Case: |
Steel case secured with grub screws at the corners, 20mm. lugs, plain pushers, case back signed inside HEUER-LEONIDAS SA SWISS, stamped on the outside BUNDESWEHR 6645-12-146-3774, correct reference and serial numbers at the case ends |
Bezel: |
Black bezel with 60-minute scale |
Dial: |
Black dial with 2 subsidiary registers each with white but different hands, Arabic lume chapters with outer concentric minute tracking, signed HEUER beneath 12 and with the circled red 3.H above 6 with the tiny T below |
Hands: |
White hands with luminous inserts, white chronograph hand with shaped lollipop terminus |
Movement: |
Manual Valjoux 230 |
Strap: |
Brown leather |
Info: |
Produced by Heuer Leonidas S.A. in the late 1960s and early 1970s for the West German Air Force (Budeswehr), these flyback chronographs using Valjoux 22/ 222/ 230 movements, known as ‘Heuer Bunds', are now amongst some of the most collectible and sought after military watches on the market today. Like many other milwatches the Heuer Bunds were made in a variety of dial formats – one of the rarest being the very early examples signed Sternzeit Reguliert. This example is one of the best-looking of all with the red 3·H and tiny T which the military insisted Heuer used to indicate the dial was painted with the luminous material tritium. This particular example was made circa 1965 and we like it because the exterior is unrestored, but its condition doesn't warrant any restoration – it's almost as if it's just come off a German fighter pilot's wrist! |
