Hello everyone. I've been looking at vintage Conquests online, and have come across two nice examples which I'm fairly interested in. On first appearances they look very similar:




They both have the same steel / black applied indices which I think look great. But they appear to have been applied in different directions on both version. Is one of these a redial which has been done with the indices back-to-front? Or is this an accepted variation using the same indices?

I was also looking closely at the lugs. On the second watch they look quite sharp, where as on the first watch they look polished and quite smooth. Would the lugs on the first watch originally have been the same as the second, or is this is a different case design?

Would appreciate any thoughts from more experienced members. Thanks in advance for sharing your wisdom.

 

IMO second one is an obvious redial.

 

I’ll also be interested to read what any Longines experts have to say but to my untutored eye, and after googling images of 1960 & 1970 Conquest Automatics, neither look like what I’d expect them to look like.

 

Thanks, what is it in particular that makes you think that?

 

Minute markers not perfectly radial, badly printed (see around 6) and misaligned with indexes (most noticeable from 10 to 2), date window very off (can see markers through), no "Swiss made",...