Then I know that James did not use UV powder. So what are you expecting to see?
All kinds of funny, unexpected things happen under UV light... it'd have been interesting to see how JH's lume looks like under UV light, be it glowing (which it is likely not to) or something else...
Take a look at the Vintage (Rolex) market and think a step further.
It's more about certain sellers who "fail" to disclose value relevant things to then ask a premium from you, not about the fact how good a re-lume/casework/redial/fake parts is/are. That's the difference. You can already see it every day, even though the forensic skills needed are comparably low now.
All kinds of funny, unexpected things happen under UV light...
I used to have a UV inspection lamp. Wonderful little tool. You got to see alsorts of things that simply weren't visible to the naked eye. I started shining that thing everywhere. You could walk around the garden at night and find where the cat would mark its territory; see where the foxes had been running. It opened up a whole new world.
Just a word of advice: never shine one in a hotel bathroom. At least, not if you plan on having a good night's sleep there.
Can I actually OFFER you a free UV torch, shipped to your home directly, and you take a pic for us and post it here?
Happy to pay the $5 plus s&h to see what this looks like under uv's...
I'm not sure what you mean. Do you want me to post a photomontage? It's the same dial.
No!
I was stating that I would much prefer to own a decent looking dial restored by JH rather than have a tired original dial which is deteriorating .
As far as I can see the OP didn’t state it’s been done to sell on as original.
Bit like ok I have a beautiful 1960s E Type Jaguar on original tyres....
Everyone to their own I suppose.
But not if it’s running 80 mph on those original tyres!!!!!
You think the dial looks too perfect? What do you want to tell me?
But not if it’s running 80 mph on those original tyres!!!!!
But in the end, it's the naked eye that counts, right?
James' work looks excellent, I would have no qualms about using him, though I have not as yet had cause to. In fact his work is a little too good, normally a shoddy redial can be spotted a mile away but when considering a tritium relume, by using Zinc sulphate he can put a dial back to how it would look and behave as if fully original and which will stand up to all but the closest scrutiny. Radium reluming is a little different as it is rather more involved faking the alpha emitting signature, but not impossible if older ground up lume is used in the new compound. I suppose one way to look at it is that if the copy becomes just as good as the original, who cares if it is a copy.
