Hello all:

I have this Seamaster 3577 cal 354 which has a really, really bad redial job - but underneath is a nice waffle dial.

I am currently overhauling the movement and I would love to have a decent dial for the watch.

Any recommendations for dial painting/restoration in the U.S./Canada who has a track record with Omegas? I have seen posts with International Dial, Kirk Dial, Dial Craft... I am not looking to spend $500 on a repainted dial, but I would spend $150 +/- for a nice job - I think it would be better than casting aside a waffle dial.

Thoughts/suggestions/input?

Thanks!
Patrick

 

If you must, then Jack at IWW

 

Thanks. At least the dial has all the hardware. If anyone knows of a cal 354 dial, let me know. It doesn't have to be textured.

 

Are you looking for a good 354 dial or a donor dial to be restored? I think the case reference should be 2577 not 3577

 

@Giff2577 of course, of course I meant 2577. Lack of proofreading on my part.

Well I would love to get a decent or nice original dial for the cal 354 considering the advise above that restoring a textured dial may prove difficult.

Do you have a dial for a 2577? I would love to see it

 

It's too bad your textured dial is redone. I'm a big fan of textured dialed bumpers. If I get a chance I'll sort through my dials to see if I have any decent ones that will fit a 354. No promises but I'll look.

 

Thanks @Giff2577 i would appreciate it very much!

 

Thanks @gatorcpa it is definitely a ref. 2577 case. This is my first watch I have serviced myself so I would love to commemorate it with a fine dial.

 

Kirk Rich is good

 

Can Kirk Rich do a reasonable job on 1957 Constellation pie pans and position the cross hairs properly?

 

Thanks @base615 I think I am going to try reaching out to them.

 

I was happy with mine. It was in a really atrocious state when it went off for redial and came back looking decent. It's certainly not perfect (serifs missing etc) but a redial never will be and it's certainly better than the work I've seen from others. I had no crosshairs so I can't talk to that.

Be sure to correctly brief them as they will do exactly what you ask for, even if it's incorrect for the watch. Mine had very little script remaining with the damage so I used an example photo for them to copy. The problem was I used one with a 'T' for tritium next to the 'Swiss Made' and of course my watch has no tritium. It doesn't bother me too much, I'm not trying to pass it off as an original dial.

Here's a closeup, at normal size it'd be difficult to tell the difference.



I'd still always recommend not doing a redial if you can get away with it. If your dial is just patinated or you can find an original replacement, I wouldn't do it. Mine was badly damaged and unfortunately Pie Pan dials are like rocking horse poo so I had no choice. It's the only dial I've had done.

 

Nice job. Many of these I've seen suffer from weak printing---as though this was the 5th dial they stamped on the same ink charge. Not this one.

 

Could be, good point.

 

My first Constellation suffers from a poor redial anyway so anything would be an improvement to the "offense to the eye" that it is currently. Funny how it seemed fine back when I got it from some murky South American Ebay auction back in the late 1990s. Only later did I wise up.

 

Kirk dials does great work; understand they do some work for some Omega service centers in the USA