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* Case material. 18K yellow gold only. A pink gold case carries the separate reference 5031; a steel case would be a different reference entirely.

* Dial feet position. Specific to A.295. A 5030 dial on an A.296 movement is not period-correct.

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~~== Still open ==~~

~~Total production. No collector estimate is widely cited. The reference ran for roughly one year and the surviving population is small but unquantified.~~

“Datejust” text transition. Some dealer sources claim the word “Datejust” first appears partway through 5030 production in 1948. Other sources — Le Monde Edmond, the consensus auction literature — place the first consistent “Datejust” text on ref 6105 in 1953. The appearance on any 5030 dial is inconsistent and contested; the conservative reading is that a 5030 dial with “Datejust” text needs case-by-case authentication against the dial feet and printing conventions.

Scholarly status. The 5030 is included in the broad Ovettone family by most dealer and Italian auction usage, and excluded from the narrow “true Ovettone” cluster by Le Monde Edmond. Both framings coexist in current collector literature.

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 * Case material. 18K yellow gold only. A pink gold case carries the separate reference 5031; a steel case would be a different reference entirely.
 * Dial feet position. Specific to A.295. A 5030 dial on an A.296 movement is not period-correct.
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-== Still open ==
-Total production. No collector estimate is widely cited. The reference ran for roughly one year and the surviving population is small but unquantified.
-“Datejust” text transition. Some dealer sources claim the word “Datejust” first appears partway through 5030 production in 1948. Other sources — Le Monde Edmond, the consensus auction literature — place the first consistent “Datejust” text on ref 6105 in 1953. The appearance on any 5030 dial is inconsistent and contested; the conservative reading is that a 5030 dial with “Datejust” text needs case-by-case authentication against the dial feet and printing conventions.
-Scholarly status. The 5030 is included in the broad Ovettone family by most dealer and Italian auction usage, and excluded from the narrow “true Ovettone” cluster by Le Monde Edmond. Both framings coexist in current collector literature.
 == Sources ==