Vintage Heuer Carrera
White-dial vintage Heuer Carrera with a brown leather strap

Vintage Heuer Carrera

The original Heuer Carrera.

This page is dedicated to what I consider the most beautiful wristwatches ever made — the manual-winding Heuer Carreras of the 1960s.

Welcome — and enjoy!
Mika Ruottinen

Specifications

Technical details

Case style
One case style shared by all models, excluding both executions of the Dato 12
Case material
Stainless steel, 20-micron gold plated or 18-karat gold
Measurements
36 mm excluding the crown; 18 mm lug width
Movement type
Mechanical, manual wind
Movements
Valjoux 72 / 721 / 723 / 92 / 7730 / 7733; Landeron 189
Crystal
Plastic
Chronograph scales
Tachymeter, decimeter and pulsometer
Main models
Carrera 12, Carrera 30, Carrera 45, Carrera 12 Dato and Carrera 45 Dato
Other models
Yachting, Mareographe, Seafarer and Skipper
Main references
2447, 2448, 2456, 3647, 3648, 7753, 2547 and 3147

Technical evolution

Two executions

First execution

Hour markers
Flat, thin applied polished steel markers
Hands
Thin polished steel hands with luminous inserts
Caseback
Screw-back with six slots, excluding very early models with the so-called poly caseback
Carrera 45 Dato
Date window at 12 o’clock with red text
Carrera 12 Dato
Dato 12 case with ‘fat’ lugs; no Carrera text on the dial; black date pointer

Second execution

Hour markers
Wider faceted applied steel markers with black or white inserts
Hands
Wider polished steel hands with luminous or black inserts, excluding Dato 12 refs. 2547 S and 2547 NS
Caseback
Screw-back with six slots
Carrera 45 Dato
Date window at 9 o’clock with black text
Carrera 12 Dato
Dato 12 case with ‘thin’ lugs; snap-back; no Carrera text on the dial; blue or red date pointer

Models

The Heuer Carrera models

Explore the four principal families of manual-winding Heuer Carreras.

01 · Models

Heuer Carrera 12

First execution

Polyback

Second execution

Special models

How it works

Pulsometer scale

The pulsometer — also known as a pulsations scale — measures heart rate without counting for a full minute. Start the chronograph with the first pulse, count the number of beats specified on the dial, stop the chronograph and read the corresponding beats per minute from the scale.

02 · Models

Heuer Carrera 45

First execution

Polyback

How it works

Decimeter scale

Ideal for engineers, technicians and efficiency analysts, the dual-purpose dial shows 1/5-second divisions in black on the bezel and 1/100 of a minute on the inner blue dial division. Decimal data facilitates recording and computation.

Quoted from the 1966 Heuer Carrera brochure.

03 · Models

Heuer Carrera 30

Second execution

Special models

How it works

Tachometer scale

The tachometer scale records average speed in miles or kilometres per hour over a measured mile or kilometre. Start the sweep seconds hand when passing the starting line and stop it at the finish. The sweep hand will point to the average speed on the tachometer graduation.

Quoted from the 1963 Heuer chronograph brochure.

04 · Models

Heuer Carrera Dato

Carrera Dato

Special models

Carrera Dato 12

Complete model list

Heuer Carrera references

If you own or know of a version not listed or pictured here, please contact me and help keep the list up to date. Thank you.

Showing 68 of 68 references

Model1st execution2nd executionMovementNote
2447 S POLY×Valjoux 72Early polygonal caseback
2447 N POLY×Valjoux 72Early polygonal caseback
2447 T POLY×Valjoux 72Early polygonal caseback
2447 D POLY×Valjoux 72Early polygonal caseback
2447 S××Valjoux 72
2447 N××Valjoux 72
2447 T××Valjoux 72
2447 D××Valjoux 72
2447 P×Valjoux 72
2447 NT××Valjoux 722nd execution was never produced
2447 NS×Valjoux 72
2447 NST×Valjoux 72
2447 SN×Valjoux 72
2447 SNT×Valjoux 72
2447 SND×Valjoux 72
2447 Y×Valjoux 72Yachting
2447 M×Valjoux 721Mareographe
2447 SF×Valjoux 721Seafarer
2448 S POLY×Valjoux 72Early polygonal caseback
2448 N POLY×Valjoux 72Early polygonal caseback
2448 T POLY×Valjoux 72Early polygonal caseback
2448 S××Valjoux 72
2448 N××Valjoux 72
2448 T××Valjoux 72
2448 D××Valjoux 72
2448 NT××Valjoux 72
2456 S××Valjoux 72
2456 N××Valjoux 72
2456 T××Valjoux 72
3647 S POLY×Valjoux 92Early polygonal caseback
3647 N POLY×Valjoux 92Early polygonal caseback
3647 T POLY×Valjoux 92Early polygonal caseback
3647 D POLY×Valjoux 92Early polygonal caseback
3647 S×Valjoux 92
3647 N×Valjoux 92
3647 T×Valjoux 92
3647 D×Valjoux 92
3647 P×Valjoux 92
3647 NT×Valjoux 92
3648 S POLY×Valjoux 92Early polygonal caseback
3648 N POLY×Valjoux 92Early polygonal caseback
3648 T POLY×Valjoux 92Early polygonal caseback
3648 D POLY×Valjoux 92Early polygonal caseback
3648 S×Valjoux 92
3648 N×Valjoux 92
3648 T×Valjoux 92
3648 D×Valjoux 92
3648 NT×Valjoux 92
7753 S×Valjoux 7730
7753 N×Valjoux 7730
7753 T×Valjoux 7730
7753 BT×Valjoux 7730
7753 D×Valjoux 7730
7753 NT×Valjoux 7730Was never produced
7753 NS×Valjoux 7730
7753 NST×Valjoux 7730
7753 SN×Valjoux 7730
7753 SNT×Valjoux 7730
7753 SND×Valjoux 7730
7753 MIL×Valjoux 7733Issued for Belgian military forces
7754 SKIPPER×Valjoux 7730Known as “Skipperera”
2547 S××Valjoux 7231st execution known as “Fat lug”
2547 N×Valjoux 723Was never produced
2547 NS×Valjoux 723
2547 SN×Valjoux 723
3147 S××Landeron 189
3147 N×Landeron 189
3147 NS×Landeron 189

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