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Maybe it is just me, but I don't recall seeing one of these date models with the large arrowheads, as opposed to the stick markers. Are these unusual? Rare? ...  

2943 and a 2954 with a date complication and I assume that given the era they came from, with the arrowhead markers as well. Some of the early 561 series had arrowhead markers and date Cheers Andrew

The last genuine model to have arrowhead markers was the cal 561 case 14902 - the 14902 gold capped examples are quite uncommon. Both the 14381 and 14393 had versions with arrowhead markers, but if the movement is a cal 564 then the watch has either had t... 

en route for my approval and I believe is solid gold so may be a 14393. I was just guessing at the movement. Will post pics when it arrives!

Shouldn't it have a cal. 504? Here's another example: and my 14393: ...  

. . . the spelling of 'chronometre' changed to 'chronometer' within the production span of the cal 504, in either '58 or '59. Wouldn't a watch with this dial be accordingly fitted, Desmond? Intrigued, Art

Yes that's the general range Art, although some French and Swiss Constellations were the exception. I suspect a redial as this configuration should be in a 2943, whereas in the 14393 version we see the absence of Officially Certified unless a factory repl...