Redial?

Howdy fellas, I'd like to consult the brain trust on my 1940 small Weems. I originally bought this watch figuring it was a redial based upon the 'S' and a couple of other inconsistent features of the print. Honestly, I don't think I've ever seen a sans serif print "Longines" I didn't wonder about. And, this was fine, because I bought it to steal the bezel lock off it for my A-11 project. Anyway, I digress. When the watch arrived I was rather pleased with it in hand. The S still is wonky, but my confidence that it was a redial was a touch shaken. I decided to wear it some, and to post it here. When no one here said anything about the dial being redone I started to talk myself into it being original with possibly a touch up here or there. Anyway, I posted this watch on the Longines group on Facebook a few days ago and two of the three comments were that it is a redial.

Now I come here to ask the folks I consider to be experts on Longines, what do you think? Redial or not?

Some of the civilian versions of the Longines Weems have some odd dials which may or may not be original.

Here is my example:


It has a similar Longines logo and no Swiss on the bottom.

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Redial or no it's an attractive little watch. I enjoy wearing it for now and once the repairs are done to my A-11 case I won't mind stealing the bezel lock from this watch for it. I'll just plug this one's case and probably give it to my daughter. For now, I rediscovered this fun green alligator strap earlier when I popped the bezel off it to get the dial photos.

It is a manual bezel lock.
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Lt. P.V.H. Weems of the US Navy developed a system for air navigation, or avigation as he called it. One of the requirements was an accurate watch. He worked with Longines and developed the Weems watches. Before the days of hacking you'd set your watch to the exact second before take off by rotating the bezel to synch your watch to the observatory time, and then lock the bezel in place with that clamp tightened down by the second crown. These were the first watches designed with rotating bezels.

As a follow up to yesterday's post. I checked my watch and it had gained four seconds since I first started wearing it on Friday. So, I simply loosened the lock and rotated the bezel four seconds to reflect the difference and locked it back down. Originally, I believe, the 60 second hash mark was painted red on these to make it easier to quickly spot. You can quickly understand why this was so important to navigating an aircraft traveling at over 200 knots.

Edit: Four seconds at 200 knots equals a distance of a quarter mile.