This "strange" Seamaster

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Hijak

·Oct 3, 2019

Agree with above, everything looks good for a SMDV. But for that dial hands do seem too long and SWISS MADE does seem off (could that be from distortion of crystal...spacing does seem wrong though?).

A typical SMDV for comparison...

 

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hoipolloi

·Oct 3, 2019

I am sure the dial has been tampered with in the past.
The 6 o'clock marker is short with no reason at all. Fonts are correct but too thick to me, crosshair is same, too. Swiss Made looks off.
The whole thing gives me a feeling of a product from an expert from the East.
Who knows if we can find a covered hole on the other side of the dial where the star was attached on before .

 

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Noddyman

·Oct 3, 2019

That retainer ring is huge and still it doesn’t come anywhere close to Swiss Made or the hour markers. On any other 166.020 it would possibly cover the text and likely impinge on the markers.
The dial looks small and the proportions in general look off somehow.

 

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padders

·Oct 3, 2019·Oooo subtitles!

It looks great but I too can't see it being original. The hands are just a weird length. I think it is a very well executed redial using for some reason an ex Connie pp dial.

 

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Vitezi

·Oct 3, 2019

I assume this example is one of the eighties quartz DeVille piepans mentioned earlier...

https://forums.watchuseek.com/f29/v...an-dial-quartz-wristwatch-1345-a-1294465.html

 

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michael22

·Oct 3, 2019

The 1 & 4 markers seem to have a minute mark peeping out.

 

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baoquang

·Oct 3, 2019

other things I have noticed:

- 12 hour only one index
- crosshair doesn't look straight, thickness is questionable
- dial seems too small

and that I have never seen such a combination within my humble 'career'...

 

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No Mercy

·Oct 5, 2019

Original SMD dial is in 30.6mm
This dial is 29.6mm, Im pretty sure ^_^