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While this isn't the most colorful of vintage Heuers, it does hint at the brand's penchant for high contrast with its brightly colored chronograph hand. And the red accents nestled in the minute track around the dial are link a nod to Heuer's fondness for color. This can be most notably seen in the Monacos of the era. That said, the Autavias link were not to be left out; they had their own fun with contrasting red- and blue-bezel GMTs, as well as a couple of silver link dial variants.

When link Cellini opened inside the famed hotel Waldorf Astoria in 1977, the mechanical watch industry was struggling to adapt to the growing popularity of mass-produced quartz link watches during the so-called link "quartz crisis." A year after Cellini opened, quartz watches reportedly outsold their mechanical counterparts for the first time.