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Thank you! Whatever I can find out would be awesome. Legit or not I just love it. At least I know the Lemania and the case go together and there is nothing I can see on the dial to suggest it's a more modern put together or simply faked. Even the hour markers react to being charged and then deplete as you would expect 1980s applied tritium markers to do and very similar to my late 70s and mid 80s Speedies in that regard.
Tests by DOXA demonstrated that orange WAS in fact the most visible color under water, except at deeper depths when no colour was visible and all dial colours turned dark gray or black for want of illumination. here's a quote about the legend of, and explanation for, the orange dial dive watch: ‘...Urs Eschle, the designer of the now-famous Doxa SUB 300, decided to test a variety of dial colors in murky Lake Neuchâtel (in 1967) and found that orange was best for underwater visibility.’-Hodinkee watch website
Urs tested and found orange to, in fact, be the best visible color under H20, except at deeper depths where no color was best. Outside of that it is a cool and fashionable colour.
