Script is important, but there is no one tell really. And given the asking price seems to be high, any prospective purchaser would be better off holding the watch in one hand and a bloody good loupe in the other rather than asking for hi-res photos! Maybe Arno could drop by when he's next in Munich and cast an eye over it.

Jeff wrote "for a watch with such a limited production run, it's difficult to imagine that there were actually two executions (or two batches) of dials". Perhaps, but it's also more likely that the dials for such limited production were hand-finished, rather than the manufacturer setting up their printing machines for such a small run. There are some signs of hand-finishing on other low run dials, though the variation is not normally as much as this shows in the registers against the known examples.

Anyone taken a good look at the back of the dials? Any manufacturer stamps? I'd wager (a small amount) it was little swans. Of course, they would probably be using the dial blanks from a regular run in any case.

This is why I'm happier when a watch has more things to pick up on, like that black 1553 on eBay - though even that hasn't stopped that one being bid up... Caveat emptor as always.