I thought this might have been more in-keeping with the ebay thread but if anyone is considering this Medico-Compax for sale by Lorologiese (perhaps unlikely given the asking price) https://www.chrono24.co.uk/universa...0-steel-chronograph---cal-285--id15016647.htm, ref 22420 3, serial no. 1634151 "fitted with its original dial in its original truly excellent, untouched condition" https://www.picuki.com/media/2299419468584838123, it was previously for sale looking like this: Bit naughty!
Those numbers just looked way too big. And weird that they refinished the case, but left the case-back all scratched up. I love collectors who keep track of sales like this. Well done.
More than a bit naughty - thats outright fraud. Unfortunately they're not the only ones around that region that seem to do this...
To restore the dial you need to paint over the old dial and that usually wipes out the concentric circles in the subdial as well as blur the subdial edges. Also the huge fonts for the pulsometer are not wrong.
Take a look at the registers ... Differences in layout Round three on second runner Badly printed 5 on minute register The pulsation print looks so busy when compared to original ... Smells of a redial or call it a restored ail !
Here's two other examples from private sales section here on OF. Round 3s in seconds subdial and pulsations scale looks the same to me.
Those are very early medico dials you show. Different colors. It could be that they were used as a template for the "restore" as the finished product is different and does not have much in common with the original dial.
The word Pulsations on the "clean" Lorologiese dial finishes at the centre of the arabic 12 hour numerals. The same word on the "dirty" dial finishes approx midway between 11 and 12. The 22420 model in Sala's book, on the archive page, also ends midway between 11 and 12. In French language in all 3 examples I refer to.
I'm no expert on Medicos, but I see many small idiosyncrasies consistently in the dial printing that suggest the same cliches are being used across these dial examples.
Bgrisso's is a different dial design whereas we're talking about 3 watches with the same design - Lorologiese clean & dirty, and Sala. Nonetheless there are differences between the 2 Lorologiese dials, the placement of "Pulsations" being an obvious one. I raised the 22420 dial in Sala's book on the assumption it would carry some weight as a reference guide. I'm not suggesting the clean Lorologiese is a redial but the difference is noteworthy. It's a question for the UG experts here whether it is usual to see such variations in the same dial? I'm trying to learn something.