Hello Mark,
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I have never heard of this type of knife.
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If you're seriously into Indonesian blades, you need to get Albert van Zonneveld's book.
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From the link below better pictures can be seen.
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Good catch - it's rare to get not fully appraised stuff from Artzi...
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what whoud the normal dressing for the sekin be?
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Not too different - how's the fit of the scabbard? (Could be more slender/graceful.)
The traditional sekin hilt looks more like those rencong hilts without L-shaped bend (i.e. hulu puntung) and, especially, the somewhat intermediate hulu dandan. Although the sekin blade does not have that forged stem-ring, I think there could be a relationship between these weapons. However, the rencong hilts are all curved towards the back of the blade whereas the sekin hilt (apparently representing a very stylised bird's head) curves towards the edge similar as with a sewar.
Regards,
Kai