{"id":17402,"date":"2022-09-28T15:40:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T13:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.classicheuer.de\/chronographs\/vintage-heuer-autavia-mario-andretti-ref-3646m-first-owner-chronograph\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T12:36:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T10:36:53","slug":"vintage-heuer-autavia-mario-andretti-ref-3646m-first-owner-chronograph","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.classicheuer.de\/en\/chronographs\/vintage-heuer-autavia-mario-andretti-ref-3646m-first-owner-chronograph\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Heuer Autavia &#8220;Mario Andretti&#8221; Ref. 3646M &#8211; first owner Chronograph"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"VIiyi\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"JLqJ4b ChMk0b\"><span class=\"Q4iAWc\">A unique<strong> first-hand collector&#8217;s item<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"JLqJ4b ChMk0b\"><span class=\"Q4iAWc\">The sporty and much sought-after Heuer Autavia Chronograph <strong>Autavia Mario Andretti<\/strong> with manual winding movement is from <strong>1968<\/strong>. With a black dial, two white registers and a white central second hand, as well as minute bezel (M).<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"JLqJ4b ChMk0b\"><span class=\"Q4iAWc\">The watch is worn but in good condition.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"JLqJ4b ChMk0b\"><span class=\"Q4iAWc\">Dial discoloration due to strong UV radiation.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"JLqJ4b ChMk0b\"><span class=\"Q4iAWc\">The watch <\/span><\/span><span class=\"JLqJ4b ChMk0b\"><span class=\"Q4iAWc\">was used in the cockpit of the first mass-produced civil aircraft with jet propulsion in Germany.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"JLqJ4b ChMk0b\"><span class=\"Q4iAWc\">The <strong>Valjoux 92<\/strong> manual winding movement is in technically perfect condition.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"JLqJ4b ChMk0b\"><span class=\"Q4iAWc\">The watch with the reference <strong>3646M<\/strong> is <strong>unpolished<\/strong> and in its <strong>original condition<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"JLqJ4b ChMk0b\"><span class=\"Q4iAWc\"><strong>Tritium dial<\/strong> with original tritium on hands and indexes.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"JLqJ4b ChMk0b\"><span class=\"Q4iAWc\">This model was frequently worn by racing driver Mario Andretti in the 1960s.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":17230,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[31],"product_tag":[144,335,457,999],"class_list":{"0":"post-17402","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-autavia-en","7":"product_tag-black-dial","8":"product_tag-manual-winding","9":"product_tag-mario-andretti-en","10":"product_tag-tritium-en","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classicheuer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/17402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classicheuer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classicheuer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classicheuer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classicheuer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classicheuer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=17402"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classicheuer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=17402"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classicheuer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=17402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}