Latest acquisition, a 146.017 in need of some love.

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Picked this up yesterday at the London Watch Fair. Looking very sorry for itself. Good price but looking like it certainly needed a dial.

Wish I had taken a better before pic. Decided to give the dial some love and after my go to combo of lemon juice and distilled water, and then several coats of varnish, it's far from perfect, but a hell of a lot better.

My theory is that it was touched up in the past (can see very clearly where) and the varnish stripped (which could be why it needed touching up) but not revarnished. Which led to it detiriorating further. Will keep my eye out for a better dial, but pretty happy with the result for now.

Next up a movement service, first 930 I'll have done but figure it can't be too different from an 861.
 
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Well done! But about that bracelet....... 馃榾
You the same S Morrison as over on the FB group 馃榾 That's a JB Champion I'll have you know. But now on an NSA till I find an endlink for my 19mm BoR
 
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You the same S Morrison as over on the FB group 馃榾 That's a JB Champion I'll have you know. But now on an NSA till I find an endlink for my 19mm BoR
Oh no, thats a Simon Mellor
 
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I鈥檝e done he lemon juice trick before, once with success and once a disaster- but neither time I was able to keep the lume! How did you?
 
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I鈥檝e done he lemon juice trick before, once with success and once a disaster- but neither time I was able to keep the lume! How did you?
I used it very, very sparingly. I suspect if I had needed to use enough to disolve the varnish, I would have lost the lume. Luckily, there were only spots of the original varnish left. Some you win, some you lose. I don't always have success are some dials are just more delicate. I completely dissolved a Tissot seastar dial once, there were numbers and indicies floating about all over the place 馃ぃ