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·There’s a nice Ed White in the Private Sales section right now….
I don’t trust most dial lum I see that is too thick and too perfect. There are at least a few talented artisans fixing up dial lum these days. It will become an important distinction separating good from great examples. And every time I’m away for a couple of years there sprout up half a dozen experts. Moon Watch only students, I presume. Notice how shallow the lum is on the original dial here.![]()
With respect, that is not an Ed White, it’s a later 67/68 Pro so you are comparing apples with oranges as those do have thin yellow lume typically which has a habit of falling off. EW lume does go a bit puffy and shrinks away from the plots in some cases and can look like squeezed toothpaste in extreme cases. The colour on the OP watch is much more pumpkin than most EWs which is a bit suspicious but perhaps the missing hand lume is maybe a good sign. Here is mine from early ‘66 so about a year before OP watch, rather different in colour but not too far off in look.
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I thought they weren't doing them at the moment.
With respect, that is not an Ed White, it’s a later 67/68 Pro so you are comparing apples with oranges as those typically have thin yellow lume which has a habit of falling off. EW lume does go a bit puffy, often shrinks away from the plots and can look like squeezed toothpaste in extreme cases. The colour on the OP watch is much more pumpkin than most -65 EWs which is a bit suspicious but perhaps the missing hand lume is a good sign. Unless it’s a deliberate relumer trick that is! Here is mine from early ‘66 so over a year before the OP watch was made, rather different in colour but not too far off in look. Please excuse the hair on the crystal.
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Another Congrats!!
Ditto on wanting to see more pictures when you get it back from service!
My one and only experience buying an Ed White back in 2015 didn’t turn out quite as well as yours did..
… but it certainly was a good learning experience for myself, and many others!
Let’s see if anyone (besides those who remember or already read my 2015 thread) can identify the problem here. This was the photo in the ad
… a really nice, clean-looking, circa ‘63 caliber 321, right?
Another Congrats!!
Ditto on wanting to see more pictures when you get it back from service!
My one and only experience buying an Ed White back in 2015 didn’t turn out quite as well as yours did..
… but it certainly was a good learning experience for myself, and many others!
Let’s see if anyone (besides those who remember or already read my 2015 thread) can identify the problem here. This was the photo in the ad:
… a really nice, clean-looking, circa ‘63 caliber 321, right?
I heard about that special 321. Limited NASA edition that comes with a paperclip...so the astronauts can tidy their documents in the shuttle lol.
Ah El Paperclip!