Hello Shaun,

both watches have a certain charme, so I think it's good that you have both. Although I love a really nice patina, I think I'd go for the minty. I don't know really why...

It's also interesting to see the little differences reagrding the movement. Just 3000 numbers apart, but still lots of differences.

Nice couple!

Kind regards,
Manuel

: Which one of these would you prefer? They are only separated by
: around 3,000 difference in serial number, so they came out the
: factory pretty close to each other. Would you choose the heavily
: patina'd one or the one that shows a dial as was intended to
: look when Jack Heuer approved the design?

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: What if you turned the watches over and you saw one had a so called
: "polyback" of the earlier Carreras (but not the very
: earliest)?

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: What if you then opened the two watches up and checked the
: movements, to see if the movement was marked Ed Heuer or Heuer
: Leonidas?

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: So, which do you prefer?