I recently posted this one in the "What Did You Buy Today" thread:
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I bought it rather cheaply and I had an idea that the dial could be cleaned, as I couldn't discern any loss of text anywhere on the dial, leading me to believe that the orange patina was on top of the lacquer.
I wasn't dissapointed
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I carefully removed it without disturbing the radium plots, and pretty much everything came of easily. In my eagerness to get a photo of the result before the last light had gone, I didn't dry the case properly, as you can see - that has been corrected now.
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