Orient J39908-70 - final missing variant acquired ?

[Seiko7A38]

If you followed my multiple Oriental ramblings on the old forum (there were a lot, I concede), specifically this thread:
My newest incoming J39908-70 variations on a theme .... then you may have worked out that my collection was still short one particular dial colour variation, which had eluded me, not once, but on a few occasions.

That was the Orient / Racer J39908-70 with black dial and gold sub-dials. There's an example at the top of the second page of that thread, which sold on the Russian collector auction site Violity.com in March 2019 for a mere $12.65.

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I try to search all the various Spanish classified sites at least one a week, but it seems that I'd overlooked searching Milanuncios.com last week. Luckily I remembered this morning and found this example had been listed 9 days ago.

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https://www.milanuncios.com/relojes-hom ... 962190.htm

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The Milanuncios-hosted photos were comparatively small, so once we'd established contact, the Spanish seller emailed me much better high resolution close-up shots (he'd since removed the old leather strap, which wasn't original anyway):

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It didn't look quite so pristine in those photos, with a scratched crystal and a few minor dings in the case. Mind you I've bought worse, unknowingly. So a deal was struck; I paid him by TransferWise and he posted it this afternoon.

[Seiko7A38]

Spotted the not so deliberate mistake ? I did - as soon as I'd uploaded those larger photos. My eyesight must be getting worse. This wasn't the black dialed version of the Racer J39908-70 I sought, which still continues to elude me.

It's another of the dark blue dialed version, the same as I bought off the Romanian eBay seller, back in July 2014 !!
(Also documented halfway down the first page of that J39908-70 variations thread.)

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Still at least my newer acquisition doesn't have a moisture damaged dial, so perhaps I'll make a good one out of the two.

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Edit: Nope instead it had a battery acid damaged dial !! See the subsequent rebuild thread in the Workshop section.