Indys were printed and I guess they have used the same tool as printing is very much a like. Petty impossible to fake when you look at details in metal.
I know of two similar watchmaker Carreras and one with a different dial, it seems that these were handpainted, on their to do list was to alter dial and movements.
Mint case and nice patina it has...

: Arno (or others) ...is it possible that some of these Indy or other
: "specials" had the dial hand painted?

: From your book, there looks like there is a hand painted watch
: school carrera, could they have done this for the specials
: (hence low production numbers)?