That's a nice one Mike. I'm always a sucker for rectangular crystals on dials. I'm wearing this:





Peter's flat crystal Diastar 2. Fortunately it has the smaller, rounder, nicer crystals on the dial. I know Ken had at least one Diastar "0" with a DS 2 style case and flat crystal. This is definitely a DS2, the spring bars do not fit into the TC, but I wonder if this is not another instance of Rado using up back stock of the flat sapphire before using the more familiar faceted DS 2 crystal. Either that, or a retro-fit. Either way I really like the thinness of this watch. I always assumed it would be much thicker.

Im still with my new certina electrosonic, this one will stay on my wrist for some more days!
B. T. W. I also got a DS 2 without ref nr.and flat crystal. It shows the unique ss/ds case construction. Im not wearing it very often but i can post some pics if you are interested, henry!



Greetings,

Hi Mike- I can't find any pictures of it right now but I could swear my old DS 8 had bigger square crystals. I hated it. I thought you couldn't see the dial for the markers and I don't get that impression with this one. I don't think the DS 2 is significantly thinner, I haven't measured them yet , than a regular DS but because the slop is so much gentler on the TC it seems thinner. Coupled with the flat crystal, which is thinner, the whole watch has quite a sleek feel to it. I like it much more than I thought I would.

That is a possibility. That is about the right size of crystal.

On this sunny day in Saskatchewan I went Sci-Fi:







Apparently,someone needs a"bath".