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.
 
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Bonjour! Here is my quadrant dial 14905. 21m sn so 1964. I am huge fan of special dials and is primarily what I like to hunt.

The finish on the dial is straight graining in alternating adjacent direction. In one light, quadrants 1/3 will be bright reflecting light back to your eye while quadrants 2/4 are dark. Then the bright/dark sectors will flip flop like a metalic paint job when light hits from a different angle. Its really wild to hold in person. I think I snagged this off eBay for around $800 on BOR earlier this this.

 
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Bonjour! Here is my quadrant dial 14905. 21m sn so 1964. I am huge fan of special dials and is primarily what I like to hunt.

Great collection in the box so far!