'Definitive' Answer re Cyclops Magnification from RSC Singapore

[Ruud Van Driver]

I'm just this second back in the office from RSC Singapore. The date magnification on my Sub LVc has been quietly bugging me since I bought my BLNR so I decided to have my crystal changed.

The lady on service advised me that there is nothing wrong with my Cyclops but the issue surrounds the font of the date wheel. Older models have a bold font whereas newly produced pieces have a date wheel with the fine font. She went on to tell me that several customers have brought all sorts of different pieces in to question the magnification and she has since sought guidance from Geneva. Obviously, this doesn't stack up with US RSCs changing crystals and there being a subsequent improvement in magnification (unless the RSCs have changed the date wheels and not told anyone, which is unlikely but not impossible ).

I then asked her if she had a Submariner with the bold date wheel to show me, so I could compare it with mine side by side. She produced two, still in their shipping caskets and untouched by human hands (outside of the factory). This is what she showed me: