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All lume and 16mm for me.
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I agree, vintage aesthetic prefers a greater taper to a smaller clasp (16mm), and this would definitely win over the slight functional addition of a variable clasp. I also think the variable clasp...

Here is a close up of my old Excelsior Park Monte Carlo, which I count as being the most successful dial I have ever seen with lume on a pale dial (white, not cream-ish in this case)
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I think a pale-dialled version looks fantastic.
The most difficult thing will be the balance of black print round the lume plots.
Too much will look heavy, too little will reduce the...

Somehow the lugs look more crisply edged too, like the older version had a convex side, and this one not. Is that true, or just an optical trick. The front profile looks sharper (and all the better...