Jaeger-LeCoultre

Clavi
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Different opinions... and different eyes too :-)

I know you take this catalog scan as an official justification of the 'empty dots', and I know the re-edition has been made partly based on this scan.

However:

- looking at this very scan, I don't see the dots 'empty' at all. They just look normally filled by tritium as any other black dialed 855 was, as far as I can judge from a scan of an offset printing from the 1960's (with the inherent lack of details)

- The empty dots would make no sense at all, back in time and today. Why would you put lume on hands and no lume on dial  (how can you read time at night with no referring point, just hands ?). And even more on a on a diver
There is no other example of memovox produced back in time with such a pointless configuration of luminous on dial and hands

- Even if we agreed on the 'empty dots' on the catalog scan (which I don't), well, I have several examples of other memovoxes printed in catalogs which did not correspond to the actual watches produced (this still happens nowadays with many brands that catalogs and real watches don't always match)
I have never-ever seen a 65' 859 with empty dots, (I have seen at least a dozen), and I doubt any of the original watches were really produced without lume on dial.

So, I don't really get it why the watch was re-issued the way it is. I think it is a flaw.
Not a dramatically important one I admit, but as the watch was re-created with the intention of being faithful to the original in a 'purists' way, I think it is as much a problem as is the partially luminous index one the 1968.

And it is a relatively easy fix too (just need to 'lume up' these little circles....)

I know this is a detail, but this hobby is about details like this, isn't it ?   (otherwise a good LCD casio would do fine for us    )