Let's See Your Quadrant Dial Watches

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I've been fascinated with this dial design ever since I saw a Polerouter for sale with a quadrant or "quarter" dial. Usually the 4 quadrants differ in how they're brushed, to make the dial visually appear to be in 4 sections. Now before someone asks, my definition, for the purpose of this thread alone, is that a quadrant dial is divided visually into 4 sections, but without painted crosshair lines. There seem to be a plethora of crosshair dials out there, and I want to focus on the quadrant type specifically. These types of dials seem to be rare across many different brands, so I thought it would be interesting to see what other OF members have found.

Here is the Polerouter that started me on this quest. Note how the adjacent sections are either concentric brushed or sunburst to achieve the quadrant effect:



The Special Seamasters thread on OF only shows one example.




Here's my Pallas/Stowa example. The perpendicular brushing has a sunburst effect, and a color changing effect as well depending on the lighting:




I'm still kicking myself for not picking up the Polerouter.

So let's see if anyone else has come across a dial like this...
 
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Thanks, yes the chevron is another quadrant variant I've seen.
 
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Hamilton.....flick of the wrist reverses the quadrants' appearance.....cool lugs, also.