60 minute totalizer?
The "2" hour number looks more like the top of an 8. Certainly doesn't match the 2 in the 12. That would bug me.
Fascinating. That Movado dial seems to have the identical font and 'number-cropping' as the Longines! And also a 60 minute totalizer.
Wondering what you think of this "NOS" 30CH dial being sold by the same seller on eBay. No "SWISS MADE" at all.
I don't follow chronographs closely, but another feature that may identify the Longines as originally a Movado is the single railroad track sub-dial. Or did Longines also employ a similar design?
Firstly, the design of the sub-dials is anomalous. I have never seen an original 30CH dial with similar sub-dials. The font of the numbers is not right. It looks more reminiscent of UG dials. The 'entirely open' design of the individual hash marks is also not right. By 'entirely open', I mean not connected to a printed circle. Early dials (no winged-hourglass emblem) with large sub-dials like these should have a closed track. Finally, the elongated markings at 3, 6, and 9 in the minute totalizer are not found on this type of 30CH dial.
Secondly, the design of the hour markers is anomalous. While there was arguably more variation in hour marker design than there was in sub-dial design (for a given size), these markers stand out as unusual. One would expect outlines of numbers to be paired with radium. Given that this dial is purportedly "NOS", it seems unlikely that any original radium would have been removed. Additionally, I do not recall ever seeing a 30CH dial with similar, printed triangular hour markings.
Thirdly, the seconds scale and tachymeter scale look very good. Maybe these were done using original equipment.
In short, this dial is anomalous in some significant ways. I am willing to entertain the idea that it was produced by Stern Freres as a spare dial, given the design and execution of the seconds and tahcymeter scales. However, I would struggle to view this dial as 'correct' in a 30CH as it is unlike any original 30CH dial that I have seen in a watch.
Thanks for sharing your detailed observations. I also felt that the quality of the printing was very high, but the missing SWISS and open numerals and markers jumped out as me as odd.
Forgive a silly question, but is a 60 minute totalizer rare or forbidden or?
Well ... this beauty has a 60 minute sub-dial.
Indeed. By all accounts, the Longines dial appears to be a Movado M90 (90M?) dial with the word "Longines" printed on it. Below is another Movado example that is even more similar, with "Swiss Made", a tachymeter scale, and an open seconds track in black.
13zn: il contatore di sinistra ha un doppio binario, quello di destra ha un solo binario
30ch: le tacche telefoniche sono sintomo di una ristampa
