Is this a 5512 "Neat Font" Dial?

[soicanbefree]

I was browsing HQ Milton and ran into a variation I have never known was a "thing" before.

My question is my 5512 a neat font dial in your opinion?

Mine: https://imgur.com/a/h6A39Y0

Reference article: https://mansfinelife.com/2016/05/10/...bmariner-dial/

HQ Milton Example: https://www.hqmilton.com/timepieces/...rst-dial-A2928

Mine is a 1.47M serial.

Thoughts opinions?

[stmoore]

Not a neat fonts dial.
S in submariner is off.
T in ft is off.

[soicanbefree]

Originally Posted by stmoore

Not a neat fonts dial.
S in submariner is off.
T in ft is off.

Ok. Thanks. I actually still can't really tell the difference there.

I found an easier tell which was swiss on the bottom is much wider on the "neat fonts".

[stmoore]

Correct. That’s a very early serial too. Is it a 66 caseback? What quarter?

[mbc]

The key to the Neat Fonts is the "660" -- Neat fonts are open, more upright vs. regular dial. For me that's the first thing I look at...

[btinl]

1.47M seems very early for a matte dial.

[stmoore]

Originally Posted by btinl

1.47M seems very early for a matte dial.

Especially with that dial....
Several documented 1.51m first owner 5512s with neat fonts dial however


I want to see what his caseback says.

[ravenhome777]

I guess this was a 5512 neat font. Didn't realize it at the time:

https://imgur.com/kTq2N1T

It was a beauty.

It had really puffy lume like the one at HQmilton. I wonder if certain people at Rolex had different styles of applying lume. Some seemed to make it really puffy, while others seemed to almost tap it down with some sort of instrument that had a cross hatch pattern to it. I obviously have no idea how the lume was actually applied. Just speculating. But it seems like a lot of these neat font dials have this puffy lume application. I also read that neat fonts have very bright lume that still glows very brightly under uv.