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Two colour branches are worth separating out. A sunburst blue dial with applied polished baton markers, white outer minute divisions and luminous five-minute dots is documented on steel examples around 1972, and is the standard blue configuration. Separately, a blue dial with a horizontal brushed finish rather than a sunburst has surfaced on a 1967 steel example, described by the specialist who handled it as one they had never seen a second time. One example is a lead, not a variant; the horizontal-brushed blue should be treated as unmapped until another surfaces. Black dials with applied gilt faceted baton markers and gilt lance hands are documented on gold cases and carry the retailer signatures discussed below.

The one thing that should be assumed rather than hoped for is refinishing. Custom-coloured 1007 dials circulate openly, and Antiquorum has catalogued at least one example explicitly as a custom dial, selling it at the bottom of its estimate. Turquoise, orange and other non-factory colours offered on this reference are refinished dials, not discoveries. Printed character dials belong in the same category~~. The best known of them is~~ the Sotheby's 'Snoopy' covered below~~, and it~~ is the ~~one that proves such a dial can still carry a watch past its high estimate~~.

The one thing that should be assumed rather than hoped for is refinishing. Custom-coloured 1007 dials circulate openly, and Antiquorum has catalogued at least one example explicitly as a custom dial, selling it at the bottom of its estimate. Turquoise, orange and other non-factory colours offered on this reference are refinished dials, not discoveries. Printed character dials belong in the same category; the Sotheby's 'Snoopy' covered below is the best known of them.

==Case, bezel, crystal, and crown==

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Sotheby's catalogued a steel 1007 in New York in October 2020 under the lot title Oyster Perpetual 'Snoopy', and the name is literal. The silvered dial carries a printed Snoopy with Woodstock perched against him, sitting between the coronet and the Superlative Chronometer text. Case number 1'693'858, circa 1967, caliber 1570, on a 7205 rivet Oyster with 60 end links. It made USD 6,300 against a USD 4,000–6,000 estimate, the strongest 1007 result located.

The catalogue photographs the character plainly but describes the dial only as silvered and says nothing about who printed it. Rolex has never held a Peanuts licence and no factory character dial is documented on this reference, which puts the Snoopy alongside the custom colours: decoration applied outside Geneva to an otherwise honest watch. ~~That it~~ cleared its high estimate anyway ~~is the interesting part of the lot~~.

The catalogue photographs the character plainly but describes the dial only as silvered and says nothing about who printed it. Rolex has never held a Peanuts licence and no factory character dial is documented on this reference, which puts the Snoopy alongside the custom colours: decoration applied outside Geneva to an otherwise honest watch. It cleared its high estimate anyway.

==Auction record==

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 Two colour branches are worth separating out. A sunburst blue dial with applied polished baton markers, white outer minute divisions and luminous five-minute dots is documented on steel examples around 1972, and is the standard blue configuration. Separately, a blue dial with a horizontal brushed finish rather than a sunburst has surfaced on a 1967 steel example, described by the specialist who handled it as one they had never seen a second time. One example is a lead, not a variant; the horizontal-brushed blue should be treated as unmapped until another surfaces. Black dials with applied gilt faceted baton markers and gilt lance hands are documented on gold cases and carry the retailer signatures discussed below.
-The one thing that should be assumed rather than hoped for is refinishing. Custom-coloured 1007 dials circulate openly, and Antiquorum has catalogued at least one example explicitly as a custom dial, selling it at the bottom of its estimate. Turquoise, orange and other non-factory colours offered on this reference are refinished dials, not discoveries. Printed character dials belong in the same category. The best known of them is the Sotheby's 'Snoopy' covered below, and it is the one that proves such a dial can still carry a watch past its high estimate.
+The one thing that should be assumed rather than hoped for is refinishing. Custom-coloured 1007 dials circulate openly, and Antiquorum has catalogued at least one example explicitly as a custom dial, selling it at the bottom of its estimate. Turquoise, orange and other non-factory colours offered on this reference are refinished dials, not discoveries. Printed character dials belong in the same category; the Sotheby's 'Snoopy' covered below is the best known of them.
 ==Case, bezel, crystal, and crown==
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 Sotheby's catalogued a steel 1007 in New York in October 2020 under the lot title Oyster Perpetual 'Snoopy', and the name is literal. The silvered dial carries a printed Snoopy with Woodstock perched against him, sitting between the coronet and the Superlative Chronometer text. Case number 1'693'858, circa 1967, caliber 1570, on a 7205 rivet Oyster with 60 end links. It made USD 6,300 against a USD 4,000–6,000 estimate, the strongest 1007 result located.
-The catalogue photographs the character plainly but describes the dial only as silvered and says nothing about who printed it. Rolex has never held a Peanuts licence and no factory character dial is documented on this reference, which puts the Snoopy alongside the custom colours: decoration applied outside Geneva to an otherwise honest watch. That it cleared its high estimate anyway is the interesting part of the lot.
+The catalogue photographs the character plainly but describes the dial only as silvered and says nothing about who printed it. Rolex has never held a Peanuts licence and no factory character dial is documented on this reference, which puts the Snoopy alongside the custom colours: decoration applied outside Geneva to an otherwise honest watch. It cleared its high estimate anyway.
 ==Auction record==