JH. Thanks for this. All questions that I am dying to answer. Experts please? My big dilema is whether to let the mother-in-law of all battles loose on the vintage watch expert and watch the feathers fly!!!

Keep em coming.

Nick

: yours. i can't see it on the otd pics, but i
: can't tell if there is an angle difference
: that is causing this?

: this leads me to a different issue from the one
: at hand. i remember someone making a comment
: on one monaco being made from a few, used
: for parts, etc. if this is the case with
: yours? wouldn't it still be a true heuer
: (except the hands), and not a frankenheuer?
: after all if you sent a current production
: watch in for an overhaul, and to have the
: crystal, bezel, crown, etc, etc. replaced,
: it would still be a valid piece. all that
: really needs to match is the case ref. # and
: the movement, correct? assuming all the
: parts were from that production period and
: of course that model. in other words, if
: hans at heuer built a autavia from scratch
: with all nos parts, that were correct to
: that model, wouldn't it be a nos autavia?
: nobody would call it a frankenheuer would
: they?

: j.h.