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Heuer Carrera 3647 - finding production year??

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I can only speak personally, but there’s almost no way I’d buy a 3647 with a heavily polished case and without a serial number. The only exception would be if the price was irresistibly low. I’d want at least €1k less than a normal case with SN, and I’ve got a sharp midcase in the parts box so could correct the problem. You’d encounter problems if you ever tried to sell it. They’re not exactly rare so why bother ?
 
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@w154:
Got your point, the 3647S and 3647N are nice watches, so I will keep on looking!
And maybe get my 200 posts here in the future, then I could post on the WTB!!
😀

Thanks for taking your time!
Do give me a heads up if you bump in to one!

Cheers!
 
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hansaboy hansaboy
@w154:
Got your point, the 3647S and 3647N are nice watches, so I will keep on looking!
And maybe get my 200 posts here in the future, then I could post on the WTB!!
😀

Thanks for taking your time!
Do give me a heads up if you bump in to one!

Cheers!
Which country are you in ? I’ll keep an eye out.
 
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w154 w154
Which country are you in ? I’ll keep an eye out.
Sweden, but EU and also UK is no problemo!

Thanks again mate!
 
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Good morning Guys and Gals!

Waking up this old thread....😀

I have a Heuer Carrera 3647S, and I am trying to find out the production year...
Serial nr is 66956.

And going through old posts, and websites - the crown should be unsigned?

Your help is always appreciated!

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JimJupiter
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To my knowledge, no signed crown is correct. I am also interested in a Serial to production year table. I remember there was an indication of the dates on the old OTD pages mastertable, but they are gone unfortunately.

Nico
 
Mark020
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Found in catalogues second half of the sixties
 
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hansaboy hansaboy
I have a Heuer Carrera 3647S, and I am trying to find out the production year...
Serial nr is 66956.

And going through old posts, and websites - the crown should be unsigned?

66 or 67 most likely. Unsigned crown or signed crown could be correct for that range
 
w154
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I think either very earliest were around 53xxx-54xxx, and this was around 1964. Going out to 1969 we can guess they were at around 141xxx based on the first cal 11s. So that’s 90000 units over 5-6 years. Obviously volumes ramped up later, so I’d guess 66xxx would be around 1966.
 
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According to the book by Richard Crosthwaite & Paul Gavin 3647 1st execution's were produced in 4 batches. 1st is 54-55k, 2nd 57-62 and 3rd 66-69 so yours is batch 3.

I have a 2nd batch one with egg shell dial with poly back

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w154
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My 3647T would be from fairly early in the first batch then.

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@Mark020 and @w154
Lovely watches!!
Both of them are non T:s, so a bit older than mine...?

A solid chart with serial nr and dates would be nice, but I read somewhere that Heuers archives were messed up??
Placing my 3647 as a 1966 would be fun since I am a birth year fool...😁
 
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Little side track, are ‘no T dials’ tritium or radium? I’ve seen people say both.
 
JimJupiter
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Davidt Davidt
Little side track, are ‘no T dials’ tritium or radium? I’ve seen people say both.

Mine is Radium for sure...at least thats what the Geiger says 😁

Edit: Interesting Question regarding the Serial and the production date. @w154 said 54.xxx is assumly 1964. Shouldnt it be earlier, when the dial used radium for the lume plots? Wasnt Radium forbidden starting in 1962/63 in Switzerland?

Nico
 
w154
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JimJupiter JimJupiter
Mine is Radium for sure...at least thats what the Geiger says 😁

Edit: Interesting Question regarding the Serial and the production date. @w154 said 54.xxx is assumly 1964. Shouldnt it be earlier, when the dial used radium for the lume plots? Wasnt Radium forbidden starting in 1962/63 in Switzerland?

Nico
Yeah you might be right about that. I was going from memory that the carrera was launching around 63/64, and randomly chose 64 as the 3647 came after the 2447. Don’t think these were as early as 1962 though, so perhaps 1963 ?
 
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Stumbled over this amazing clip...
There is a LOT of info...



Enjoy!
😀
 
Mark020
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hansaboy hansaboy
Both of them are non T:s, so a bit older than mine...?
Correct

3647 was introduced in 1963

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The earliest known Carrera is in fact a 3647 IIRC.
 
w154
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abrod520 abrod520
The earliest known Carrera is in fact a 3647 IIRC.
Oh maybe I remembered wrong… or maybe we just know more now as I think I had that in my head from the old Eric Wind Hodinkee article.
 
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