Thanks everyone for your kind words about the piece
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To me, the pleasure of collecting watches also come from the joy to share them with other collectors ...
I would like to thank
@Oku,
@jsflog, and other members for their intensive research for flaws on this dial.
You guys are so demanding and hard to convince. This level of exigence gives more credibility to the originality of the dial ...
I considered your opinions and I find out that, according to all the others UG collectors I know and even M. Sala himself, the printing of the dial is documented and completely original.
Overlapping 30 and
not centered subdials are both documented in the archives of the manufacturer. As
@Mlafra said, "hence imperfections and inconsistencies are well known and documented and should not surprise if within acceptable levels".
Concerning the overlapping indexes, two explanations are likely ... Firstly, first documented dial with overlapping original indexes. Second, custom-made dial for a client, by UG or another jeweler, with bigger indexes, that are too big and so overlap the scale.
Anyway, this piece still a perfectly mint 1949 Tri Compax, almost untouched and probably worn a dozen of time. According to
@Diabolik, the piece must have been stored for almost 70 years in a temperature and humidity controlled environment.
My next challenge is to find a better piece than this one ... Because the next one is always the best
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Cheers,
Florent
