Heuer Ref. 349 Base Metal Chronograph, 1940's Men's Vintage Watch £1500 - £3000 It featured a luminous bakerlite

It featured a luminous bakerlite bezel insert that whilst providing good luminosity suffered from cracking easily

this attractive Seamaster adds an additional point of interest with its original textured linen dial

Boettcher showed the patent wasn't purchased directly by Wilsdorf as some believed but instead was first acquired by Charles Rodolphe Spillmann on July 19

The watch features the 8541B automatic calibre – possibly one of the finest automatic movements ever built

aka the Omega Ploprof

Heuer Ref. 349 Base Metal Chronograph, 1940's Men's Vintage Watch £1500 - £3000 It featured a luminous bakerliteAnother attractive base metal vintage Heuer, this time a reference 349 from the late 1930s to mid 1940s. It features a 36mm case, clean dial design and is powered by the Valjoux 22 manually wound movement just back from a full service by our watchmaker. The case is in overall good condition although there are small signs of deterioration to the case finish as is often the way with base metal Heuer's of this era. That said its still very acceptable and