Probably a special order dial, but not a test dial, think we have seen too many now to be a test dial.

Impossible to say which came first imo, pure conjecture at the moment.

Cheers
Richard

: Hello,

: for what i've seen, in the serial range 85000-86000 we can find
: both 2nd and 3rd excution dial for the 2446/3646. So there
: should have not been a 'transitional' dial between 2nd and 3rd.

: The tachy dial seemed to me a very limited production, we don't
: know if it was born as special order, or for a particular
: market, but we saw it also into the dial archive of Tag Heuer so
: it was something 'official' and not a test never gone to market.

: Serial of the following watch, one of the four 3-reg we have seen,
: found in Germany, is 95xxx, and falls in the middle of the
: production of the mk3 2446.
: This makes me think there was not a separate batch allocation for
: these watches during the regular production of the Autavia.

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