Just thought I would share this anecdote of a few stressful hours this extremely neurotic collector had to endure this morning. I had lost some sleep last night thinking about a recent OF post last week about a speedy dial lacking concentric circles all of the subdials. It got me thinking about my newly acquired 105.003; I had never before noticed the concentric circles on it.

Well, I am away on vacation with the watch in question, but without my trusty loupe. Using my wife's magnifiers and the strongest light I could find, there were no subdial circles to be found. A huge wave of depression passed over me and I decided to take a walk and calm down. Well, that didn't work and as soon as I got back to my ipad, I googled speedy subdial concentric circles to try and see if all early speedies should have them. Well! i came across this blog from speedy101.

http://speedmaster101.com/blog/concentric-circles-on-subdials/

Needless to say, my heart sunk, and I spent the next 1/2 hour thinking about what I would say to the seller to try and get my money returned for this clearly fake watch. As I was doing this, I was flipping through my ipad photo album and came across this photo (photo #2).

As you can see, where there are slivers of light passing over the dial, faint but present circles can clearly be seen.
Disaster averted! As Spacefruit had said in the blog, these subdial circles can be very faint, but always present.

So, that is how I spent this sunday morning. A day in the life of a slightly derranged vintage speedy lover.

 

I believe Spacefruit had never meant his website to be a Gospel. He'd also be the first to say he hasn't seen everything yet.

The concentric rings just recently popped up here, but if you look more carefully with a better magnifier, I'm sure you'd find more details on your watch that are different from his watches...

 

To a rookie, spacefruit and others here close to Gospel

 

I hate that feeling. like a punch in the kidneys... glad it worked out!

 

The kidneys or lower

 

Yes they can be very hard to see without good light and a good loupe. Try this one out
https://www.amazon.com/BelOMO-Tripl...0EXPWU8S?ie=UTF8&ref_=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top

 

He got the lower kidneys