Hi mrcorken, you are right that the Nina Rindt version with the applied logo (and thin white hour hands) is the earliest. They then switched to the luminous register hands. The watch you show above looks great except those register hands look different than the usual thin ones. I haven't seen thick non-luminous ones like that, although I haven't spent tons of hours looking at these. Otherwise, it has a faded but original bezel, which is great, and the central hands all look correct. The blued central seconds hand is very hard to find if it has broken off the post, so it is great it has that. Some seasoned collectors really prefer the earliest version with the applied marker, but it seems like the market now may be placing a premium on those with the luminous register hands. In either case, if the price is good, I would say snatch it up as you could always replace those register hands with thin ones (those aren't hard to find). Check out HODINKEE today, by the way:
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