There has been considerable controversy and debate about the question of (a) whether Heuer actually produced Black PVD Monacos or (b) whether Heuer might have commenced the project of producing these watches, but abandoned the project after encountering difficulties, leaving some of these watches produced by Heuer (as pre-production prototypes) and others to be assembled from the parts that Heuer had ordered for the project.

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In this guest posting, David Pearce tells us about his discovery of what seems to be the first model of Abercrombie & Fitch Seafarer chronograph, from the days before Heuer was making these watches for Abercrombie & Fitch. 

The Abercrombie & Fitch Seafarer chronographs, with their distinctive ‘tide-indicator’ sub-dials, are already well known among collectors of vintage watches.

Founded in 1860, Ed. Heuer & Co. quickly earned its reputation for developing stopwatches, chronographs and other timers to address the most specialized and challenging requirements. Heuer made timers for the engineer using 1/10,000 hour measurement for time and motion study, for the artillery officer reading a telemeter scale to locate enemy installations, and for the physician timing 15 pulses,