Thoughts on this dial? (beautiful Zenith circa early 1950s)

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Found this watch beautiful but is this dial redone?
(and I suppose the seconds hand is a replacement?
Appreciate any thoughts (sorry the movement and case back pic are very tiny).
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Thanks and best regards,
S
 
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The Doctor is out, perhaps one of his assists will help. ::popcorn::

That would be nice. Not exactly an emergency, nor a matter of life and death though. :)
 
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Not exactly an emergency, nor a matter of life and death :)
Ah, his specialty :thumbsup:
 
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It looks like a redial to me. Not sure if any of the hands are genuine honestly...

No Swiss/Swiss made. Not much patina given the (probable) age... Hour dot markers aren't all aligned perfectly...

Two of the 4 o'clock line markers are either of different color or it's the lighting and picture angle... One of them is also slightly misaligned compared to all four.
 
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Thanks much!
I did not notice misalignments… and as for "swiss" and "new looking", looking at it again I would tend to agree.
But I preferred expert eyes to see it because I don't think those are necessarily be-all-end alls and there can be subtleties.

However, in the morning light, I can now see the logo is uneven.
The H looks larger and a bit misaligned.
The script seems to show timid serifs while most other Zenith watches from that era I've found on line have a clean sans serif font.

So I guess a redial….