Hello Fellows,

I have a spare pie pan dial for I believe a cal. 561 (at least I'm told) and it measures just short of 29mm.

I remember reading that a cal. 561 dial will also fit on a cal. 564, but I was wondering if a let's say 168.005 dial also fits into a 168.004 case (and vice versa).

Anyone (Hello @hoipolloi @cicindela @MSNWatch @MMMD @gatorcpa @ConElPueblo ) able to shed light on this?

 

It fits on a 561 in a 168.005 case but a bit too small for a 168.004.
And a dial from a 168.004 is too large for a 168.005 ,(some guys just grind off the rim a bit)

Btw, that dial looks really nice.

 

Been down this alley with Mike / @MSNWatch a few years ago when there was 8 or 9 (maybe more) pie pan dials on eBay. They were the same size of nearly 29mm so I asked him about them. He had a very logical answer: if they would work on the cases you usually see (16x.005 and such), he'd have bought them all already.

 

That's good and bad news

Good News:
The good news is that the ref. 168.005 is my favourite reference

Bad news:
I agreed to buy a gold 168.004 earlier today



The good news of the bad news is the .004 has a mint dome dial. The bad news of the good news of the bad news is that I find dome dials rather dull.

Thanks guys!

 

Oh well, I'm off to find a sharp gold 168.005 with a less than stellar dial (and priced accordingly), or I must persuade Peemac to sell me my old one back.

 

Hold on - will that dial fit on a 168.005? I though they had 27 mm dials.....

 

Hmmm

I will measure it when I come home

 

But the one you sold me has a mint dial
And crispy lugs...

 

About 29mm @ulackfocus

 

Y'all pay attention now, the evil Dutchman is going to perform some very advanced mathematics.

Since @Peemacgee has my 168.005, I cannot measure the dial. But seeing Peemac has been so nice to post the pic of the watch and I have a micrometer, the knowledge that a real life 168.005 measures 34,2mm AND a bottle of wine ... I have reached, through below documented steps:



The following conclusion:



Taken into account the wine, the distortion of measuring with a caliper on an ipad and the general idiocy of my method (my wife is looking quite perplexed at me), 29mm sounds about right.

 

@BartH If you become bored of a mint dome dial SS Connie with gold furniture that I surmise you recently purchased here on the forum, I'd like to call Dibs!!

 

Dial for 005 will be a bit too large for 14XXX.
BTW, dials for 14XXX don't have officially certified.

 

Well, because you wrote 14XXX, It made me think about 14381 and 14393.