It makes no difference to legibility. The tapisserie is only on negative space. More likely they ran into clearance tolerance issues in the total stack height in production and use this as the excuse. Rapwatch
...would prefer to see the leap year indicator move in a clock-wise direction. Which leads me to wonder, does the day/night indicator move clock-wise? If not, it’s a bit of a blunder.
The idea behind this watch was great, making it the THINNEST perpetual on the market today, but why? Why did it have to be the thinnest? Why did they need to stretch the case to 41mm? Why couldn't they have just slimmed the case down to the size of the 15...