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Hi Bill..
First of all... Thank you for your responses.. I was looking forward for your response as you're very knowledgable especially in this 5512/5513 topic.
And secondly.. I start to really think there are way more variant of 5512 & 5513 around more than I have thought before... 
makes it even much more interesting than I thought it was..
makes it even much more interesting than I thought it was.. OK, I agree that the term "radial" is exclusively for GMT with longer hashmarks and smaller lume indexes.. I was just toying with the idea of finding a new nickname for it as it's a little hard to call it 5512 skinny gilt coronet with longer hashmarks.
But anyways I also have yet to make the side by side comparison personally .. So yes, there might still be possibility that it was caused by the crystal distortion.
And assuming if the hashmarks truly are longer not because of the crystal distortion, the skinny coronet that I posted to me, looks slightly different than what you shown, and more obviously the placement of the "swiss" at the bottom are also different. So it might could very be a different variant.
But just for another comparison of a skinny coronet, this one I posted a photo of a 5513 double swiss underline, which to my eye seems to also have a longer hashmarks. This one with white swiss at the very bottom.. But if I see it correctly, it's true what you mention that the coronet on the 5512 I initially posted is also different to this one.
I think I will have more time and will do a better side by side comparison next month. And when I have, I will make a better side by side picture and I need to be sure that the coronet is really different to the one you posted.
And I will definitely do a follow up post on this as soon as I have made a better comparison picture.
Cheers Bill
Sam
5512 Radial Dial ?
I have always been interested at early Submariners, and one of the specific variant I love the most is Underline dial 5512 & 5513 And recently I've noticed an interesting phenomenon on this specific 5512 underline with that some called it "flat bottom...
Here is a pair of 5512 one upper and one lower underline for comparison.
There is always a question of image distortion from the cyrstal. But your Rolex coronet is long and skinny and could be a variant. Yours also has the swiss at the very bottom vs the ones I am showing have it in the swiss in the middle. For me the radial i...
The 5512 gilt skinny Coronet "appears" to have slightly longer index markers.
A couple of comparisons. First your agsinsts a know example with a skinny coronet from 1963 and the second also unpper underline but not skinney coronrt. The both have the same color sequence but they differ on the crown and swiss position. So it seems th...
Hi Bill..
First of all... Thank you for your responses.. I was looking forward for your response as you're very knowledgable especially in this 5512/5513 topic. And secondly.. I start to really think there are way more variant of 5512 & 5513 around more than I have...
There is always room for discovery when it comes to vintage Rolex
It appears these skinney coronet do have slightly longer but as you said some side by side will help things along. Thanks for all your contributions that help us navigate the wonderful hobby. Best Bill
Hello Sam - this is a known variant:
You find it here: As mentioned there, the pics come from the web archive of sheartime - while you find the best close-ups for Rolex Sports watches on Jacek's site HQMilton, sheartime is the largest source for "dial only" shots (and shows also the most re...