I always wonder why these SNs are so rare. It's a fine-looking watch; contemporary Carreras sold very well with silver/white dials (off the top of my head, maybe 75% of the first generation Carreras we see have S dials); in some US literature the silver Carrera dial is even referred to as the "standard" dial. And yet silver-dialled Autavias (in these iterations, more came along later of course) are so rarely seen, and aren't in brochures and price lists. Prototypes, to special order perhaps, but I just can't understand the thinking - would these not have sold just as well as the black dials?

I admit, I can't see a silver dial working on the first executions with large registers and dauphine hands, though in part that will be because I am so used to those in black. But once they move to the smaller registers? Well, why not, we've seen that the silver works well from the few examples that have come up. Anyone have any insights, it has me stumped?!