Help: Universal Geneve Compur Black Snail Dial

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JasRew

·Jun 11, 2018

Hi everyone, my name is Jas and I’m new to this forum. I came across this beautiful UG Compur with a snail dial and I would love to have your expert opinion about it. I know the photo is low resolution (not mine), but could you please tell me if the dial is original or a redial? Thanks a lot!

 

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LouS

·Jun 11, 2018·Mrs Nataf's Other Son

I'm going with redial on the basis of curved-top threes in the minute track and a general look inconsistent (more modern) with a Compur

 

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Carlton-Browne

·Jun 11, 2018

This was the subject of conversation with another forum member over a glass of wine last week 😗. The text in the listing suggests that the dial has been swapped - read into that what you wish.

 

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bgrisso

·Jun 11, 2018

is that lume or white paint?

 

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Florent

·Jun 11, 2018

White painted chrono hand and subdials hands
Wrong chrono hand
Wrong right subdial hand
Probably painted dial
Probably redial but need better resolution to be sure
Wrong crown
Wrong pushers
Polished case

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👍

 

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Carlton-Browne

·Jun 11, 2018

Florent

White painted chrono hand and subdials hands
Wrong chrono hand
Wrong right subdial hand
Probably painted dial
Probably redial but need better resolution to be sure
Wrong crown
Wrong pushers
Polished case

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👍

but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health...

 

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Florent

·Jun 11, 2018

didn't get your point?

 

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ELV web

·Jun 11, 2018

Florent

didn't get your point?

SNAFU

 

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Florent

·Jun 11, 2018

Here is an original lumed dial from this period

 

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LouS

·Jun 11, 2018·Mrs Nataf's Other Son

Florent

didn't get your point?

Carlton-Browne

but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health...

...WHAT HAVE THE ROMANS EVER DONE FOR US?!

 

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Carlton-Browne

·Jun 11, 2018

Florent

didn't get your point?

It's a Monty Python reference and basically makes the point that apart from a loooong litany of caveats, there's nothing wrong with it.

edit: oops, too late.

 

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Diabolik

·Jun 11, 2018

Cant be sure without examining it, but apart from all that has been mentioned, to me, it does look like a dial from another house which has had the Universal Geneve logo and Compur added at some point in its life.

Easily mistaken for a re-dialed UG. I have seen this sort of thing before ...