Here ist the story of finding a new type of the Valjoux Skipper. Heuer Skipper 73464 late It started with finding a picture of a Valjoux Skipper that shows a difference – the colors of the subdial…. […]
Found another Skipper with unusual case at Heuer Factory Archive! During the Heuer Collector Summit in La Chaux-de-Fonds we were given the opportunity to have a closer look at some vintage heuer watches from the Tag Heuer archive and I was amazed to find a never seen manual-winding Skipper 73464. This Skipper was not cased with the usually 7736 case (the case reference 73463), seems to be a 1564 case. Note the difference at the pushers and cut out. In addition to that the countdown register marking are different. I can only assume that it is a prototype or a very [...]
This site is the ultimate reference website and knowledge collection of the HEUER Yachting and Regatta watches. The Heuer Skipper is the yachting wrist chronograph made by Heuer from the late 1960s to the early 1980s in various configurations (and some more yachting watches). With the blue and black dial and the colorful regatta-dial and orange hands it is one of the most cool and beautiful watches they ever made. The special function on this watche is the regatta-timer, a subdial which shows the countdown of 15 minutes the sailors have before they cross the starting line of a regatta. But [...]