Seamaster 861 Dial Question

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Hi Folks, recently this 145.018 was posted in an auction catalogue.
I follow this reference and while I think it’s a nice example overall, something about the dial seems strange.
The indices of the sub dials seem smaller than in other examples. I am
Comparing it to my 145.017 / 860 but the same seems to be true for the 861 examples.
The other point is that the seamaster writing seems a little odd. I know there are both variants with the soft and the edge capital “S”, but the proportions seems strange.
Maybe this is just not such a common but still legitimate dial version, I just can’t find any single
Reference online and that seems strange.
What do you think?
Marcel

 
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Maybe below the spacer ring. The outer circle of the Tachymeter scale seems wider than in other examples. But why?
 
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One I had (wish I still did) to compare dials
 
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Im with you. I vote redial. The S in Seamaster is the big thing I can't get over.
 
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One I had (wish I still did) to compare dials
I think yours is a later model - versions with a round S do exist. But they all have larger indices - here some examples I found on the web:

 
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They also all have Swiss Made which was my earlier point...

The OP watch is a slam dunk redial.
 
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They also all have Swiss Made which was my earlier point...

The OP watch is a slam dunk redial.
Yes and the overall writing of “Seamaster” is in parallel (horizontally) in the other models, the letters don’t get bigger towards the end.
I personally have never seen a remake of such a complex dial so I still find this odd.
 
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I stopped looking when I saw these details.