I had the older matte grey dial for many years and liked it but didn't love it. Then I fell in love with the more metallic dial as soon as I saw it. I was thrilled to get that newer dial in a case that had the protruding rectangular calendar corrector. The rectangular corrector is very important to me because I use it a lot (since I don't like watch winders). It's nice that for this particular model, Lange gave us different options to fit our different tastes!