Thanks for the suggestion.?
I the discussion under the picture I had posted on Flickr:
... someone had suggested the possibility of a retrofit. A late retrofit appears unlikely, viz. Henry Scherer's statements on his web site. According to the historian Hans-J¨¹rgen Kuc, author of several books on the Zeiss Ikon product line, retrofits were offered by Zeiss Ikon early on, but it was not usual to change the black dial for a color dial. Then there is the rangefinder window and the screws on the front plate. It doesn't seem very likely that anyone would go to all that trouble.?
My Contax IIa looks like a bona fide late version in all aspects except the serial number.?