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Two 1018s made for the Global Insurance Company have passed through Antiquorum. The earlier, case number 675731, was made in 1961 and carries a textured silver dial with the letter G encircling a world map, luminous steel dauphine hands and caliber 1560. The later, case number 1270063, was made in 1965. Antiquorum catalogued both as extremely rare, and the pairing establishes that Rolex supplied this dial over at least a four-year window rather than as a single batch. A third watch falls inside that window: Bonhams sold a 1964 1018 with caliber 1560 and a monogrammed world-map dial in London in November 2004, without naming the company it was made for.

Logo dials of this kind sit at the boundary between original delivery and later addition on most references. Here the corporate customer, the spread across at least three years and the ~~willingness~~ of ~~two houses to catalogue~~ the dial ~~as factory work~~ put these on the original side.

Logo dials of this kind sit at the boundary between original delivery and later addition on most references. Here the corporate customer, the spread across at least three years and the consistency of the dial across separate catalogues put these on the original side.

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 Two 1018s made for the Global Insurance Company have passed through Antiquorum. The earlier, case number 675731, was made in 1961 and carries a textured silver dial with the letter G encircling a world map, luminous steel dauphine hands and caliber 1560. The later, case number 1270063, was made in 1965. Antiquorum catalogued both as extremely rare, and the pairing establishes that Rolex supplied this dial over at least a four-year window rather than as a single batch. A third watch falls inside that window: Bonhams sold a 1964 1018 with caliber 1560 and a monogrammed world-map dial in London in November 2004, without naming the company it was made for.
-Logo dials of this kind sit at the boundary between original delivery and later addition on most references. Here the corporate customer, the spread across at least three years and the willingness of two houses to catalogue the dial as factory work put these on the original side.
+Logo dials of this kind sit at the boundary between original delivery and later addition on most references. Here the corporate customer, the spread across at least three years and the consistency of the dial across separate catalogues put these on the original side.
 ===Serpico y Laino===