MK Personal Collection Rare Steel Heuer Carrera Chronograph Cal. 92 Wristwatch Circa 1960's

MK Personal Collection Rare Steel Double Registers Heuer Carrera Chronograph Cal. 92 Wristwatch Circa 1960's. The watch features a three piece stainless steel case with round button's and screw down water proof back. It is signed on the inside back case "Heuer Swiss Ref 92". It has a super high quality Valjoux Cal. 92 chronograph movement with 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber and blued steel flat balance spring that is in running condition. The watch does need an overhaul in order to keep accurate time. It is topped with an original silver painted T-SWISS dial with applied steel baton indexes and luminous dots, subsidiary dials for the seconds and 45-minute register. As you can see the watch is in overall fair condition. It just needs a little TLC. It is missing register hands. Launched in 1963, the Heuer Carrera was named after the Carrera Panamericana, an exhilarating and extremely dangerous road race that took place in Mexico during the 1950s. With the Autavia and the Monaco, the Carrera name would become legendary at Heuer, and it all begins with this first generation model. Symbolic features of the watch include the square hour markers at 3 and 9 o’clock, the inscription “SWISS” that was not surmounted by a –T– like in the following execution, and the signature “Ed Heuer & Co SA” on the movement. The watch features a very rare matte silver dial often referred to as "eggshell white" and a faceted screw down case back, both typical to early execution models. The present example is a well-preserved early first execution reference 3647 with two registers. It was nicknamed Carrera 45 because it features a 45-minute register as opposed to the 12-hour register of the Carrera 12. This double register wristwatch was advertised by Heuer as ideal for football enthusiasts and professionals.