Thanks Mark, I had a inkling it wasn't right. Like I've said before, I'm no Carrera expert - and we/you have to look at the smallest of details to form a good opinion. Yet, looking at the entire watch, it's amazing that a wide 'take in the whole dial' view of the watch just wasn't quite right.

To any readers - this watch is on ebay right now, so as Mark says, take this info into account if considering a purchase.

Stewart

: And my feel is that this dial is indeed that, but that it has had a
: fair bit of work done on it. The paint lines on the inner bezel
: are a known point of failure, and these look to have been
: clearly redone and are notably heavier than they should be. The
: markings on the registers can fade and break up too, and have
: been gone over again here but the redialler hasn't quite nailed
: the varying length of different lines. The tell-tale of reluming
: (with Blu-Tac apparently) of the dots at 3 and 9 being missing.
: The fine detail in the name is absent too - the terminal C and A
: should be marginally larger than the other letters, but here
: they are all the same size.

: So it looks to me like an original dial (and bear in mind that the
: panda dials weren't Singer's finest moment printing-wise anyway)
: where some of the details have been blurred a bit by a redial.
: Any prospective purchaser can decide for themself how much that
: impacts the value for them. The pushers look a bit out of place
: for the case too for me, almost as if they are from one of the
: chromed economy models rather than in steel.