Heuer PVD 13-1 with Valjoux 7765 from the 1970’s - Serviced

Heuer PVD 13-1 with Valjoux 7765 from the 1970’s - Serviced

Heuer PVD 13-1 with black dial and baton for each hour. The watch has 3 sub-dials, date at 3 o’clock, seconds at 9 o’clock and minutes at 12 o’clock. The name “Heuer” comes at 6 o’clock. The watch has an outer tachymeter graduated up to 1000. It is a Swiss Made model. The hands are white with baton style, and the chronograph hand is orange. Luminous are excellent. The watch has a PVD case. It is a stainless steel screwed back case with engraved outside “Swiss Made – Water Resistant – Stainless Steel – Antimagnetic – Shock protected – 13-1”.  The watch has a manual wind movement with caliber Valjoux 7765 and 17 jewels. The watch comes with a black rubber strap and a steel black bracelet. The watch is serviced

History

The company was founded by Edouard Heuer in 1860 in opening a watch comptoir (dealership) in Saint Imier. In 1864, he moves to Bienne with a signed “E Heuer & Compagnie”. 1869, he applied for a patent for an “Independent crown-winding system”. In 1880, he is the first watch producer to start on the series production of chronographs. In 1910 Heuer creates the “doctor’s chronograph with pulsometer. In 1916 Heuer register a patent for the “Microsplit”. 1930, Heuer patented the design of waterproof case. 1949 comes the “Solunar” and the magic “Carrera” in 1963. 1964, Heuer merged with Leonidas S.A. Since 1999, the company is owned by the LVMH Group. In 2006, the “Carrera 360” took up the mantle of the “Microsplit”, a stopwatch accurate to 1/100^th of a second.

Technical details

Manual wind chronograph,60 seconds, 30 minutes with caliber Valjoux 7765, 17 jewels, 28,800 A/h and 52 hours of power reserve.

Measurements

Diameter excluding winding crown: 40mm
Length including lugs: 40mm