Scrolling through some images I noticed this dress watch, which is marked “T Swiss Made T” but looks to me like it has never had lume nor should it, as a dress watch. Why would this be? I wondered if the lume had been removed, but it doesn’t look like there is space for plots on the edge of the dial, and even if the hands are replacements, surely this isn’t the sort of watch that would have lume anyway.

Thank you for any thoughts.

 

Difficult to say. Whenever I see a dial without minute/second markers I assume it has been redialed, unless it is a very dressy watch. Some watches do have T marks regardless of any lume present, such as some of the Certina DS models. I guess it is due to the number of dials ordered; it could well be more expensive to have two different prints done as opposed to just a single one.

Here's an unlumed Certina with Ts:

 

Hot damn, I might have to really look into Certina.

 

Visually it adds to the symmetry

 

The theory that they would have ordered all dials with Ts might well fit. Accurist was owned by clever people and I can easily imagine them thinking along these lines.