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DSN 01A? or 02A?


dabal

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from what i saw on other posts,

01A has the marker color issue, being too yellow,

02A is supposed to have sandwich instead of sausage dial,

which one would you say is more accurate?

as im picking one of the two, help me choosing right one.

right now, im leaning more toward 01A,,,hmm, the yellowish color make the watch look cool,

but if the color is way too off, i'll go for 02a,

help me with your thoughts.

-dabal

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here are images from my archive of the gen 001A and 002A.

both models was manufactured in two font versions.

rolli

001A - A:

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001A - B:

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002A - A:

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002A - B:

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The first gen that you have shown is a preA1, with the T-SWISS-T dial (recessed indicies the same shape as the preV 5218 series, but the later Vendome font for PANERAI etc). This dial was only on the preA watches (before the A series of the following year). No examples of this dial on a 001A are known, but curiously a few examples of this dial appeared the following year on 001B watches.

Your following 2 examples are 001A & 002A watches, with the 'T' dials (no hyphen) which ran throughout the whole of the A series and then continued into the B series when the more common L dials were introduced. It may be that when the 'T' dials were finished the 'L' dials still weren't available so a few of the leftover 'T-' preA dials were used, which would explain why there are known examples of the earlier dial 'leapfrogging' the A series watches.

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ok....quite revealing your clarification.....

rolli

The first gen that you have shown is a preA1, with the T-SWISS-T dial (recessed indicies the same shape as the preV 5218 series, but the later Vendome font for PANERAI etc). This dial was only on the preA watches (before the A series of the following year). No examples of this dial on a 001A are known, but curiously a few examples of this dial appeared the following year on 001B watches.

Your following 2 examples are 001A & 002A watches, with the 'T' dials (no hyphen) which ran throughout the whole of the A series and then continued into the B series when the more common L dials were introduced. It may be that when the 'T' dials were finished the 'L' dials still weren't available so a few of the leftover 'T-' preA dials were used, which would explain why there are known examples of the earlier dial 'leapfrogging' the A series watches.

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