Good discussion…

A few other thoughts...

Do we think prototype dial of an already prototype watch? Guess its not impossible...

I have known the "officially” sanctioned PVD dial to be in several Heuer watchmakers boxes, but a different dial of PVD...not in any...

The serial number may be correct on the case, but this doesn’t mean the dial is authentic, much like a re-dial 1133b McQueen...

The tells on the script are most definitely 100% correct on the raised numbers sub register variant, so guess we would need a similar hi-res shot to further investigate. I'd not be getting excited about a new variation until that was as it should be...

BUT i don't doubt that we haven't seen all dial variations on Monacos yet, the 1533b grey sub is a more recent find and I’m sure there is another 73633 variant, possibly even another 1533 variant, so who knows...

Rich

: Script is important, but there is no one tell really. And given the
: asking price seems to be high, any prospective purchaser would
: be better off holding the watch in one hand and a bloody good
: loupe in the other rather than asking for hi-res photos! Maybe
: Arno could drop by when he's next in Munich and cast an eye over
: it.

: Jeff wrote "for a watch with such a limited production run,
: it's difficult to imagine that there were actually two
: executions (or two batches) of dials". Perhaps, but it's
: also more likely that the dials for such limited production were
: hand-finished, rather than the manufacturer setting up their
: printing machines for such a small run. There are some signs of
: hand-finishing on other low run dials, though the variation is
: not normally as much as this shows in the registers against the
: known examples.

: Anyone taken a good look at the back of the dials? Any manufacturer
: stamps? I'd wager (a small amount) it was little swans. Of
: course, they would probably be using the dial blanks from a
: regular run in any case.

: This is why I'm happier when a watch has more things to pick up on,
: like that black 1553 on eBay - though even that hasn't stopped
: that one being bid up... Caveat emptor as always.