HEUER Ref. 345 (pre Carrera) – Radium Gilt Dial – Valjoux 71 – ca 1943

You open an old drawer… time stops.

Then — that shimmer.

A 1943 Heuer pre-Carrera ref. 345, its black gilt dial still breathing with the pulse of another era.
A warm, patinated gilt surface with untouched radium lume, glowing softly as if it remembers every race, every night, every hand that wound it.
It catches the light — that deep, liquid gloss that only age can teach.

Full radium Arabic numerals, glowing like whispers from the past.

Original military-style hands, radium-filled and unwavering — still poised between one heartbeat and the next.

A beautifully sharp case — perhaps polished once in the last 70 years, yet still carrying the honest lines of its life.

36mm of purpose.
Valjoux 71 beneath the dial — not ticking, but waiting.

This isn’t a watch.
It’s intent, distilled into metal.
Courage, precision, and history — worn on the wrist.

Some pieces don’t measure time.
They carry it.

Heuer ref. 345 — among the very first 3-register chronographs ever made by Heuer.
A beginning. A relic. A promise.

Now paired with a new handmade-in-Germany leather strap, crafted from Horween Chromexcel — supple, rich, and ready to carry the story forward.

Serviced movement with 12-month warranty.