Saw a funny thing...

[dieselpower]

I was mooching about the web today and saw this picture of a gen 6263:

It strikes me that the "s" in units per hour is rounded and not like the 'flattened' "s" I was expecting. Any experts care to comment?

[dieselpower]

Looked at more photos. More round "s". Whats the story?

[lhooq]

There's a lot of bezel variants for the Daytona. The rounded 'S' is not a tell, as it can be found on both genuine steel bezels and plastic inserts.

I do love the way the flat 'S' looks, though!

[automatico]

There's always something.

My $159 ST19 powered '6263' from 'Paul' 3 or 4 years ago has a flat S, good number and 'units per' spacing on the bezel, with a low profile caseback...but the case is 3 or 4mm too big and uses a 20mm bracelet.

It runs liks a champ though.

I gathered up a smaller case '6263' with a Russkie 3133 and a spare V72 movement but I'm too lazy to tackle another project.

[slickdick]

There's a lot of bezel variants for the Daytona.

Indeed, in the Daytona albino thread the every example of the genuine featurd another bezel.

We are way to anal.

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Edited November 25, 2010 by slickdick

[freddy333]

There's a lot of bezel variants for the Daytona. The rounded 'S' is not a tell, as it can be found on both genuine steel bezels and plastic inserts.

I do love the way the flat 'S' looks, though!

Ditto that. The only good tells (from that distance) is the spacing of 110 (too wide & it is aftermarket) & the spacing of the individual letters in UNITS PER HOUR. Also, another way to ID gen bezels is by their flat-top 4s, which appear on all but the last run (or service replacement) of bezels. I have not come across any plastic aftermarket bezels that have both correctly spaced 110s & flat-top 4s like these gens (if you locate such an aftermarket plastic bezel, please post the link here)

[Dizzy]

I always look at the '110' on the bezel also. Theres a LOT of bad ones out there.