It’s a dome dial. Take a look at the first picture, by the date window. Pie pan dials have angles that are easy to spot. This dial doesn’t have any.
Nothing wrong with it, but not a pie pan.
For reference this is “Dome” dial. OP’s Connie clearly has 12 side, it’s a “Pie Pan”
Here we go again...
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A pie pan dial is about its shape — faceted and with angles.
The OP’s watch is a without question a dome-shaped dial, with a different paint job than a plain dome dial. Not the least bit uncommon, but that paint doesn’t make it a pie pan, and never will.
hey - it’s a perennial topic for discussion, so we must be about due for it to be debated again. 😀
I’ve never actually held one of these in my hands so don’t know if the dial is actually angled (faceted) or simply a trompe l,oeil effect ( I’ve always thought the latter personally but as I said I’ve never held one)
there must be a trusted member who has one of these who can give an objective opinion.
Didn’t someone in a previous thread say they were going to buy one to give a definitive answer?
( and the OVDB calling everything with a painted outer section - angled or circular - does not a pie-pan make….
Well, since the term is a enthusiast-coined term and not set in stone by an official authority (and means something else for different brands...), it is slightly controversial to be very firm about its definition. Even if the dial is not shaped physically with twelve sides, but the factory paint job simulates it I will continue using the term here, if nothing else than to separate it from the dome dial variant that is also available in this reference which does not emulate a different dial casting. "Faux pie pan" is also a term which could be utilised.
