: Nice photos Jeff, but I have to confess what really struck me with
: these close ups was what a crappy job Heuer did with the
: "Heuer" text within the shield on these black
: Montreals.

: Not wishing to demean your specific watch, I went away and checked
: some photos (and Arno's book) and this lack of detail and
: somewhat clumsy finishing seems endemic to the black (and to a
: lesser extent, the blue) Montreals. At the time of the first
: generation Carrera, we should all be fairly used to the black
: paint on silver dials having much more detail and finesse in
: terms of serifs etc than the white paint on black dials, but I
: thought they'd had this sorted by the time the Montreals went on
: sale.

: Check this '74-on Carrera for instance, black dial but with a good
: amount of detail in the white paint:

:
:

: And I would have thought a barrel-cased Carrera would have made a
: good template for a Montreal, but somewhere down the line the
: standards seemed to have slipped a bit. Sure the Montreal is a
: big watch, but is the shield scaled up that much? Don't have a
: Montreal to compare to a Carrera but the shield doesn't
: look that much bigger in photos.