Hamilton Chrono-matic tachy ring

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Risto

·Oct 19, 2020

I have laid my eyes on Hamilton Chrono-matic and it's nice and serviced.
But, for some reason, the tachy ring is not aligned properly.
The seller didn't know why and if it's a serious issue or not.

So, I am wondering if this can be easily aligned to 12 o'clock position or not.
I don't want to pull the trigger if this is going to be an unfixable problem later on.

60 should be at 12 o'clock.

 

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ZIELSZIEK

·Oct 19, 2020

The question you should ask the seller is: Why was it not fixed during the service? When did it occur? Easy fix, in my opinion, but only if it was not glued down sometime in the past.

 

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asrnj77

·Oct 19, 2020

Great watch. I just had mine serviced and the service cost on these vintage Caliber 11s was 1/4 of the total watch value. Just remember if there is no paperwork for said service, it never happened. Many dealers will have the watchmaker pop the case back and examine the movement briefly to determine whether it’ll survive enough for a “6 month warranty” or they’ll inject some oil and call it serviced.

To your original question, it should be an easy fix to get the tachy ring adjusted.

 

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Risto

·Oct 22, 2020

The seller visited his watchmaker and it was fixed.
I have paperwork for service. Warranty left 2 years from 3.
The seller thinks the ring was probably like that after the service, but he never noticed. He hasn't worn the watch since it came from service. He's more of a Rolex guy.

 

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Aludic

·Oct 22, 2020·@SpeedyBirthYear

Nice one! Even better with an aligned bezel... 😉

By the way; @Risto factor into your price that the lume plots clearly visible on mine are missing on this one.

 

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MRC

·Oct 22, 2020

Aludic

Nice one! Even better with an aligned bezel... 😉

By the way; @Risto factor into your price that the lume plots clearly visible on mine are missing on this one.

How curious, mine has no lume dots at all, and to my eyes doesn't look as if it ever did.

 

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asrnj77

·Oct 22, 2020

Pic borrowed from Hodinkee showing lume dots. Mine is a white panda dial

 

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MRC

·Oct 22, 2020

And now we have more differences, mine has had the painted centres to the hour & minute hands brushed off (paint is still visible around the edge) and fully painted sub-dial hands. The Hodinkee photo is not clear on the h+m hands but the small hands are clearly not fully painted I would say.

 

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Rasputin

·Oct 3, 2022

There seems to be variation in lume plots based on the above examples. Curious if the following example has the original plots vs a prior relume. Some plots esp at 4 or 5 o’clock appear misaligned with their respective hour markers. They certainly don’t appear as uniform as the Hodinkee example above.

 

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asrnj77

·Oct 3, 2022

The one above looks like a relume job to me. As you’ve pointed out it’s uneven especially at 5. The color is also noticeably contrasting compared to the dark hands.

 

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Risto

·Oct 3, 2022

I never posted a proper shot of my Hamilton 😀
You can see how the lume is almost all gone.

 

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Rasputin

·Oct 4, 2022

Another dial example. Note that the text appears thicker than other examples and the hash marks on the tachometer don’t have crisp edges. Also note the zero in the “20” in the 3 o’clock subdial. Redial, service dial, or original?

 

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Risto

·Oct 4, 2022

Rasputin

Another dial example. Note that the text appears thicker than other examples and the hash marks on the tachometer don’t have crisp edges. Also note the zero in the “20” in the 3 o’clock subdial. Redial, service dial, or original?

If it's a redial, then pretty good one. Sometimes when the photo is a bit out of focus, it can also have fatter details. Could also be a service dial, not sure how that one looks. It's not a bad dial. But, you can see all the crisp details from my photo, even crisper when you click on the photo and see larger.

The original dial has crisp little feet on the texts. They are called serifs. These are often discarded on redials because they take a lot of time to replicate.