Finally got a white-dial Ranchero ;-)

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zebion

·Jan 9, 2025

All, finally after years I am a happy owner of a white-dialed Ranchero. And I believe it to be all orig. Question to the well-educated Ranchero experts: Any reason to think that there is fake parts on it? The lume on dial and hands show same color under UV light and fades out extremely quickly after UV is off, under norma light they seem to have aged differently though with the dial lume having patinated more.

 

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dsio

·Jan 10, 2025·Ash @ ΩF

@tdn-dk has a really nice example you can compare it with, I haven’t had one of these myself though

 

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impaw

·Jan 10, 2025

I have no input on the fake/real issue, but dang, what a nice watch!
Very cool! congrats

 

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goudaville

·Jan 10, 2025

digging the pencil tip indices

 

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Clelow

·Jan 13, 2025

It is a beauty! Lucky you!

 

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gbesq

·May 24, 2026

zebion

All, finally after years I am a happy owner of a white-dialed Ranchero. And I believe it to be all orig. Question to the well-educated Ranchero experts: Any reason to think that there is fake parts on it? The lume on dial and hands show same color under UV light and fades out extremely quickly after UV is off, under norma light they seem to have aged differently though with the dial lume having patinated more.

Relax, it's legit and a nice ranchero too! It's not unusual to have a ranchero with dial lume and hands lume patinate differently. Typically, this happens because the dial and the hands were made from different batches of lume and during different times. In other words, the dial lume might have used a batch of lume "A" whereas the hands lume might have used a batch of lume "B". What's important is that the dial lume and the hands lume used radium paint. As long as a geiger counter jumps up substantially when close to the dial, and the lume lights up from UV light and then fades very quickly after the UV is off, you're good.

Edited: May 24, 2026

 

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jffoo

·May 25, 2026

That looks amazing, hoping to have my own one day!

 

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numero27

·May 26, 2026

Very Nice , It would be perfect with the hands repainted to match the color of the markers ,