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I came across this watch on a Swedish buy and sell site where it was sold (to me) as a poor man’s Heuer. But what is this Eletta watch?

As far as I can see from pictures and learn from OTD (Jeff) other poor man's Heuers were manufactured by Heuer with Heuer hands, bezels etc. But the Eletta doesn’t have Heuer hands, but quite elegant pointed steel hands, that are quite similar to those found on Jeff’s Primato “Autavia”

……….but opposed to the Primato the bezel is not a standard Heuer. It is made of aluminium instead of steel and the tachymeter scale is not an insert but is applied in some way like on the early 1960’ies manual Autavias. The text on the tachymeter scale is brownish instead of silver.
……… and the case is different from the one used on the Primato. This Eletta uses a case that has openings for pushers both front and rear whereas the Primato is closed on the front side..
……… and the pushers are not flutes as an all other Autavias.
……… and the case back has engravings very different from Heuers.

So what is this?

I researched Eletta and it is a Portuguese/Swiss company established 1950. Now they make terrible dress watches. The only Eletta with the same logo type that I could find is this one

And here comes the pictures of the Eletta:

Peter, Denmark
www.heuerwatches.net