Universal Geneve White Shadow - help with dial authentication

With a blue dial in good condition, the odds that it is a redial are somewhat high ... on most of them, moisture ingress took a toll and you will often see extensive damage to the edge of the dial, or around the markers.

I'm leaning towards this being a redial - it is a decent one, of the sort that "the longer I look at it, the more I want to believe it's real". But I'll try to give my reasoning:

Take the "Fat U" logo, for example. Normally, it is bigger, and centered under the '12' marker, and closer to it, too. Yours is fairly small and slightly offset to the right, which wouldn't have happened to UG.

The missing "Ultra-Slim" line and the tall and narrow "A"s are not a definitive proof it's a redial, there are legitimate versions without the "Ultra-Slim" (which seems to appear on post-1975 watches - a 1973 advertisement doesn't have this line, a 1978 ad does).

To my eyes, the lettering is uneven - a bit blurry, and where the same letter appears, it often looks different. For example, the three "E"s in "UNIVERSAL GENEVE" are each different, and the two "O"s.

The lettering is also not on a straight level, at least from your images. If you look at the "T" in "WHITE", the horizontal bar on top of it looks as if it's upper edge is higher than the upper edge of the "I" before it.

Also, the spacing between the letters is odd ("kerning" or "tracking", I'm not sure which one of those it is). If you look at "AUTOMATIC", it looks as if the first "A" is trying to run away to the left, whereas the letters on the right of the second "A" are crowding in, almost. I swear that second "A" is leaning to the left to avoid being crowded by the "TIC".



Still a beautiful watch. I'd wear and enjoy it, even if the dial is possibly redone.