OK, since this is here the official topic on this watch, here is my take on it (copy of previous comment posted elsewhere, and even more valid after reading your review)
This just confirms that my fears were right when first seeing the preview picture yesterday. They just took the 1970s snowdrop unique looking dial and pasted it into a classic looking case (and made it blue...)
While the result seems nice, the logic of it is very wrong IMHO.
As a manufacture designer, you either do a reedition (/ tribute if you want to update minor things), or be creative and design something new.
Mix-matching elements from different watches from different eras just looks poor creativity / easy new product, while it ruins the chances for a potential reedition in the future.
The watch will probably sell well, because inherently both the case and the dial look nice, and work together. But the approach is rather poor.
(and a color change is not what I call creativity)
Also, celebrating 60 years of the automatic memovox movement cal 815 (born 1956, without a date), with a 1970s inspired watch with a date (cal 916 so unrelated to the 815) does not make any sense.
And while we are at it, I think it is very ironic that the manufacture forgot the important anniversaries of the memovox (1999 for the 50th birthday 'jubilee' of the memovox : did you see it mentionned anywhere ? or a minor 60th anniversary in 2009-2010: did you see anything again?) while they will now release a watch for the 60th anniversary of the second generation movement cal 815... (again, with a watch totally unrelated, and an anniversary of something quite minor relative to the introduction of the model itself).
For a tribute to have made any sense for this 60th birthday of the calibre 815, a no-date classic memovox would have been the logical choice for a boutique edition (there hasn't been any no-date classic memovox for quite a while if you omit the TT DSA which isn't a dress watch).
It seems that JLC is alternating between good tributes to its past (Polaris, DSA, Reverso 1931), and less inspired ones (Geophysic, Memovox international, and now this....)
Why the need to change or mismatch visual elements when you want to pay hommage to a great watch from the past ??
Logic would have been to release a tribute (if you want to use the available modern case and not remake the original one) with at least a dial faithful to that of 1956 (which was also good looking), and no date, or go the full monty an do a reedition of the 1956 watch altogether.
This is what a E853 looked like in 1956
As you can see, pretty much nothing in common with the boutique edition which is meant to commemorate it.....