Another great one...Retirement project has to be collation and indexing of all these debates. We’ve talked about a supplement to Sala... this sub forum is the bones of it. @jerryct, would you be so kind as add “Shield On Dial Of Early UG Three Hander” somewhere in your post title so it shows up in a search?
Reference and serial on these two please but without further research, I am very dubious about the second one you show. Almost certain it is a redial.
The abnormality is on dial, not crystal. Hoewever, as is often said, the proof is in the pudding so please show dial. Another way of proving this one is to remove dial and take a pick of back of dial .... Is that an option.
If we required an advertisement of every pre-war watch we saw to satisfy that they were original, we would be in a state of hysterical crisis.
Many methods are used to eliminate doubt - each of which alone are not enough, but together provide confidence. Even an advertisement is not enough, as a watch could still be well redialed or touched up.
All you can ask for is a degree of confidence. An advertisement is nice, but should not be a necessary requirement to pass the test of reasonable doubt.
what I’ve seen on the one brand I explore the most is that people have trained their brains to recognize the most familiar and frequent patterns and when something’s unusual, they conclude it must be wrong.
And then in a number of cases, further research shows that the initial reaction was misguided- and that there were in fact variants.
After 80 years, certainly a great many watches must have disappeared and been destroyed— and so the emerging patterns are only the most widespread models.
With prices having increased as they have, I can understand people erring on the side of caution if they are buying— but otherwise new discoveries can be quite rewarding.
For posterity sake, there is another thread with an example of the early shield logo here: https://omegaforums.net/threads/is-this-ug-logo-legit.83161/
Perhaps @Kapka could add a few pictures to this thread?
