Dash Chronograph/Stopwatch Set- Vintage

I'm thinking of adding a set to the passenger side of the Morgan 3 Wheeler. The Heuer Master-Time looks the goods, but the price for just the chronometer is dear, and I want something that has been professionally serviced so that I'm not looking for a watchmaker after I buy. I've seen some Smiths and Hanhart (the latter I know little about).
I'm not a heavy hitter on watches- yeah, I wear a Panny with a date (I get confused with the PAM model numbers) and a vintage Rolex, a vintage Cartier and a few other odd pieces here and there (including a brass Smiths speedo that must have come from a pre-WWI vehicle the damn thing is so heavy).
So, what say you, time piece mavens of fine automobilia?

 

Good question, a plate mount where I can remove the timepieces and lock them in the storage compartment. How I attach the plate to the dash is another matter since if I drill into it, that's pretty much the ball game for that dash piece unless when I sell the vehicle, I do so with the time pieces as well. I haven't really crossed that bridge but have to give it more thought.

 

Yep, we are on the same page. I reached out to one vendor on eBay who seems to specialize in the two piece sets and can furnish different backing plates- some have been professionally gone over and he has a return policy. Getting watches fixed today isn't as easy as it once was-- I found that I had to send several to Richemont in Houston for complete overhauls- they simply don't make parts available to independent watch-makers any more for the newer stuff. As to vintage, I like how you think- I have several pieces of aviation instrumentation that I bought years ago when I was restoring a pre-war car. Thanks for the tip on Elgin. I'll look into those as well. Appreciated!

 

Fascinating- that's a pretty deep thread and beyond the post you identified I want to read through more of it. I grew up around antique clocks- my father was quite handy at restoration but any serious mechanical timing mechanism work went to a clockmakers-- those folks I remember visiting, creating parts for things that probably dated to the late 18th or early 19th century (many were French "wag" pendulum clocks but they had quite a few so it's not unfamiliar turf to me in a general sense). This was in the 1960s.
I guess the other question for me is one of aesthetics- not so much whether to spend but what I want the end result to look like. The dash is very simple, modern if you've seen a Super3, so I have that decision, superficial as it sounds, to make as well.
Your input has been very helpful in forcing me to decide what I want to do with this, which is only one small facet of adding things to the vehicle (Beeline Moto II, some USB ports, lockable storage, tonneau and a fair list of other parts are either at the shop or now en route). I hope to do as much of the mod/accessory work at one time so the vehicle is not tied up on repeated trips.
(Also figuring out how to carry a spare on the rear, unmounted and covered, which should not be a big deal, just a lot of little details to get "right").
My thanks, @ArtS.
What's your background in this?

 

Yeah, restoring iron truss bridges is something one just dabbles in; I came from Pittsburgh, famous for its bridges. I cannot fathom that as an avocation! I'll look at that link, thank you, Art S.

 

Good catch, a little pricey for what this car is (Morgan Super 3), IWC used to make a set too. I'm still not sure about the aesthetic. I'd like a black face and there are some vintage ones that have been professionally serviced- still looking though. Thank you for this.
PS: in answer to your question, yes, in fact the one piece in the Baltic said it had a Hanhart movement, which was a recognized brand. And there are others. @ArtS mentioned Elgin, and also some aviation clocks, which were made by a number of companies. I think the British Smiths quit the auto timing devices, spun off into avionics and sold that division. I'm still on a learning curve here.