Ask for an opinion on dials, and you’ll get them. This dial looks okay to me. Let's see what the experts say. As to whether you should consider bidding? The images alone hardly provide sufficient information to enable someone to offer meaningful advice. Price? Case material? Movement shot? A seller you feel you can trust? Return privileges?
Ask for an opinion on dials, and you’ll get them. This dial looks okay to me. Let's see what the experts say. As to whether you should consider bidding? The images alone hardly provide sufficient information to enable someone to offer meaningful advice. Price? Case material? Movement shot? A seller you feel you can trust? Return privileges?
In my opinion, based on the additional photos which show (seems to me) to be a gold filled case, at £400, you did reasonably well. The case appears to have been buffed, but I am unable to see areas of brassing. There is not a gasket in the case, or on the case back. The watch should be serviced, and the gasket could be attended to at that time. Perhaps someone with a more critical eye might give a different opinion.
Well, it’s arrived and, as is often the case, much nicer in real life than in the seller's photos.
What has surprised me is the way in which the gold painted numerals glitter in the sunlight.
Now giving it a test drive. Thanks again for the helpful comments and supportive pms.
So those numbers are actually mirror finish not painted which is why the catch the light. They are plated and part of the the dial surface not printed on top, done at the same time as the daggers which are integral to the dial on this one, not applied as on other dials.
Quite striking in the sunlight.
