Easy Answer!
Folks:
In my first job out of high school, I learned why you see products that don't match any known records of what a company produced.
The job was in a watch and clock repair shop that handled warranty service for Westclox and Seth Thomas, both then owned by General Time.
Several large store chains, like Rose's, Rexall Drugs and Ben Franklin, would periodically box up large shipments of customer returns and send them to us for repair and reboxing.
What would happen is that we would normally have exactly what was needed to repair each clock exactly as it was designed. But sometimes a shipment was very large, or an uncommon clock or two would be in it - and then there might not be the exact parts needed.
What was done in those instances was to take the nearest equivalent part and substitute it. A face designed for one clock might replace the damaged face of another, or a clock normally sold only with a blue case might get a pink one that was identical, but intended for another model.
The stores didn't care, so long as they got back salable merchandise of equal value to what they'd shipped. Consumers had very little way of knowing that a particular clock's face was "wrong," or that the hands on it didn't "belong" to that exact model - so they bought the clocks anyway.
So, if you see "oddball" stuff, there is a chance it was repaired either before sale, or under warranty after having been sold. Repairing merchandise before sale used to be much more common than it is today; such merchandise is usually marked "refurbished" now, and sold at a reduced price.
