Reissue watch · 180g repress
The one that isn’t the one
Same sleeve, same catalogue number, four decades between them. Here is the runout that tells them apart.
The 1979 first press carries a stamped A//1 with the plant code bitten deep into the dead wax; the 2015 repress is laser-etched, thin and even, and sits a full millimetre closer to the label.
Sellers rarely lie about this. They simply photograph the sleeve and never the runout
So the listing is honest and the assumption is not — which is the whole problem in one sentence, and the reason a photograph of the label is worth more than a paragraph of description.
★★★★★ Worth having — at repress money
