Heuer Mareographe

Mareographe 2443 reference mystery solved – it´s a 2447 SF! Confirmed!

It's a crazy coincidence that my friend Shaun shared a post of a Seafarer 2443 2nd exec on Instagram in the last few days and again said ‘Heuer Seafarer produced for Abercrombie & Fitch in the 1950s. Often referred to as a 2443 ref I am not sure about that as the 2443 had square pushers; it is the 2447 with round pushers as shown in the 1945 catalogue which can be seen on the onthedash website. Perhaps people don't use the 2447 name as it's confusing with the later 2447 Carrera.’. We have always talked together about the reference [...]

Mareographe 2443 reference mystery solved – it´s a 2447 SF! Confirmed!

Homage interpretation of a Seafarer 2446

What you can do if you adore an unicorn watch you will never find? One possibility is shown here. In this case there were some original parts: original movement and tidal disk and hands. The case is a modified from LeJour v72. Basically Heuer and Yema cases are interchangeable with bezels as well, it seems they were made by the same casemaker. (need to be researched, possible HF, but no record of later casemaker for Heuer since no stamping inside the caseback but in that period there were only few casemakers for most brands which mainly by Charles Spillman and Huguenin [...]

Homage interpretation of a Seafarer 2446

So – what is a Heuer Skipper?

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 [...]

So – what is a Heuer Skipper?