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How do you guys do this?
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JwRosenthal
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Thatguy
·This is a great example of best case scenario, but I’ve seen the same approach where the dial comes out blotchy and looks worse than if they had just left the even patina alone....it can go either way.
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JwRosenthal
·What is blotchy? Sorry I'm not a native English speaker...
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OllieOnTheRocks
·I have this dial that I would like to clean up if it was possible
I LOVE that constellation - what model number is that? 😀
Awh, thank you! No, I don't bother with these patinas... I was mainly curious about how did some of you guys done it. So... What did you do to the lemons again? You dip the dial to the pure lemon juice? Or you dilute them? Did you re-lacquered them?
Oh yes... I know about that. Pristine dials is the oomph!
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Thatguy
·I have this dial that I would like to clean up if it was possible
I LOVE that constellation - what model number is that? 😀
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Thatguy
·Blotchy = spots or areas of irregular finish.
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OllieOnTheRocks
·Which one?
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Thatguy
·SS one
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STANDY
··schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collectorBtw,
I'm a patient man, I mean, I was making a balance staff from scratch back at the school for 8 hours straight. 😵💫
Can't go home till you finished the task. 😵💫
Must get the measurements correct with tolerance like 0.12 microns.
One rushing, one measurement incorrect then you gotta do it all over again. It was when I discovered myself to be a little masochistic, as the opposite I was enjoying it.
Stop....wait.....your a watchmaker or are training to be one and your asking how “we” clean Omega dials !?
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Thatguy
·Stop....wait.....your a watchmaker or are training to be one and your asking how “we” clean Omega dials !?
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OllieOnTheRocks
·Those steel ones are c shape 168.029, 14900, 167.005, 168.018. There are so many ss ones in my photos hahaha
Haha the 2nd and 3rd one, they're both the same right, just different straps? Black and brown? 😀
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Thatguy
·Haha the 2nd and 3rd one, they're both the same right, just different straps? Black and brown? 😀
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ahsposo
··Most fun screen name at ΩFWhat? Only rodico? Which rodico? The general green one? Can the grey one do the same? Did you pushed hard into the dial? Or little dab dab dab? Is it only applies with patterned omegas and not the flat dial omegas?
Here is a link to the thread where it is discussed.
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I never used any solvent or liquids or things or dipped it into something. Just stay safe and sound under the dust cover waiting until it was reattached again into the movement. Though I somehow experimenting with damaged/scrapped dials to see what's the effects on solvents to them. Rodico is a nightmare for black rado ceramica dials so from thatpoint I know it's bad for the dial😁. Idk... It's nice experimenting things. Thus why I was surprised like rodicos, lemon juices, and things was used to clean the dial bcz in my experience they didn't work. I've tried polishing my indexes and hands manually with my hands and omega polishing cloth and some red dialux, rub a little to bring back the shine, as long as it's a real metal surface like steel or gold, not like a coated metal or something, and not touching the dial surface while doing so. That the only recent thing I'm confident to done with to remove the moisture damage on the indexes and hands only, just cleaning light scratches from previous watchmaker job on handling the dial. 😁
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tamura
·How do you clean your vintage omega dials?
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Did you reapply the varnish?
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Archer
··Omega Qualified WatchmakerWhen I saw these kind of things, it was like "what?! Was that possible? How?!" because we're told not to mess with the dial as much as possible. 😁
And that is the correct advice from your instructors. If it is your own dial, do whatever you want. If it's a customer's dial, you had better consult them before you do anything to it, and let them know that it turns out badly more often than it turns out well.
Keep in mind when you see all these great examples, that no one "shows off" the dials that have been completely ruined by cleaning attempts...
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OllieOnTheRocks
·And that is the correct advice from your instructors. If it is your own dial, do whatever you want. If it's a customer's dial, you had better consult them before you do anything to it, and let them know that it turns out badly more often than it turns out well.
Keep in mind when you see all these great examples, that no one "shows off" the dials that have been completely ruined by cleaning attempts...
Like gamblers always tell people about their big wins, but not their big losses!
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