My tale

Hello everyone.
I have what I believe is a Heuer Viceroy watch. Here the story.
My brother who passed in the mid 90’s in his younger years , the 60’s, went thru a time life when he was involved in sports car and SCCA racing in the St. Louis area. While not driving he pitted and worked as mechanical on a gentleman who raced a TR-4.
I was a young guy in teens and like many other ended up in the army. I was away for decades .
He passed in mid 90’s and I cleaned his affairs up. Part of his items was a Heuer watch sans band and not running. it moved with me as is for the next 25 years.

Finally recognizing I may have something special I took it to a local repairman. This repairmen is a refugee VietNam war pilot now in 60’s, who worked his way thru high school repairing watches. Now he has electronic repair shop and still does watch repair . He found one broken part , fixed it and clean the watch in a pre ultrasonic L&R cleaner.- a true craftsman in today’s throwaway society.
That’s the history of the watch. Knowing the financial background of my brother I can only assume he got the watch via the Viceroy promotion.

the watch now runs perfectly and appears in excellent condition. One side of the case says “ 1163” and the other says “246498”. I have attached a photo of the face . The rear has no markings.

At this time i am undecided whether to sell it or keep it or its value.
I would be interested in comment on history - dates etc of the watch. Either Pm, direct email or via reply on forum.
Thanks in advance

dennis
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Nice watch.

If it's a Viceroy, I think it should have a "V" underneath the "1163" engraving between the lugs. But the serial number is correct for a Viceroy circa 1972:
http://www.onthedash.com/docs/Autavia_Reference_Table.htm

You


you right the V is there.
Thanks

Thank you for replies .
At this time still undecided
1. If keep what’s is value for insurance purposes
2. If I sell .... how to and suggested selling price .

I am leaning to keeping but I could use money to build my DW a green houses she always wanted.

If you were in the UK, I would be insuring for replacement value around £3500. I'm not saying yours is worth that, possibly a little less, but if you wanted to buy another one, then this is probably what you'd need to spend.

If you sell, then your options are:
- a sales thread on this forum
- an ad on Chrono24.com (you can also use this site to give you an idea of values)
- eBay

Thank you