Another original UG dial design.... the Dodiccione

Now again offered in France:

I assume it's for sale since it's listed in the story highlights as available - but I didn't actually reach out to confirm 😀

Hello all,

Thank you for letting me step into this thread and clarify my position. As I was (I am not any longer) , the owner of this watch, that I acquired during my recent trip in Japan. I, indeed, bought this watch from the seller above mentioned. The transaction went very smoothly, and the owner was impeccable from end to end.

Back to France, I showed the watch to a friend, expert in UG, who immediately saw the problem. Backed up with the book of Mr. Sala, we quickly discovered that the dial has been re-cased in another case with wrong reference number.

Latter on, another friend sent me this thread which helped me to retrace the past history of this watch.

I immediately contact my seller who, without any question asked, refund me in total, in a laps of a couple of hours.
He apologies profoundly for the prejudice and told me he will now return to his seller to claim his lost.

I trust him and I believe his words. What will happen now, is only between him and his seller. And not my business anymore. The watch is now on his way back to Japan. End of story.

And yes, I happen to sell my watches from time to time. Accumulation is not part of my journey, but this is an another story …

I would also add, that this watch is still very appealing to me. I loved the dial, the case, everything. I had a lot of pleasure wearing it during these past few days. It was short, it is time now to move on.

Thanks for the clarification. I’m less concerned about the lack of documentation for the dial-case combination in Sala, as it's not uncommon for a single reference to be paired with different dials. As we know from the catalogs, customers could even choose the dial style when purchasing a watch.

What raises more concern for me is the early serial number. This watch has a late 1930s serial (753553), while the earliest other examples with the big XII dial have serials starting with 900xxx. So, I think you could be right and this dial might have been recased at some point.

I agree, I was pretty confident that the watch was ok with this dial...it's quite beautiful !
A bit disappointed to see the outcome but it's very positive to see that UG watches are getting more and more documented and the knowledge shared

As far as I recall this one was already sold by Romain Rea prior to 2021 and subsequently auctioned by Antiquorum.

Romain Réa works for Antiquorum 🙄

I'm fairly certain it has been on the site for several years before already.

Just did a quick search and you can find it as far back as 2017 on his site:
https://web.archive.org/web/2017112...neve-universal-geneve-compax-big-xii-593.html