I contacted Astromania via e-mail on August 8th, 2021. On the following day, August 9th, I received this reply...
I had been waiting for the last ten days or so for it to arrive.
It was a 50/50 chance prior to opening the box. It was either going to be the good, new reticle...or the bad, old reticle...
...the new reticle. I now have two, new, differing polar-scopes for this mount.
https://www.avalon-instruments.com/s...er-polar-scope
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The new Skywatcher Polarscope only has the Octans constellation on it."
No, not true.
That was very good of Astromania to correct their error, but now I've ruined the chances of others, elsewhere, in getting one with the newer reticle, and for a song, a dance...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXCwlO2jnYU
I've replied to Astromania, to thank them, but also to urge them to replace the part boxes or trays on the factory-floors overseas that, collectively, contain perhaps a staggering surplus of the older reticles.