My greying Milgauss

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Mine does the same thing if I expose it to bright light. I believe they all do this. Its just the way the black pigment reacts to bright light.

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I have one of these arriving tomorrow and wondered why they looked Grey/Blueish in some pics. Now I know馃榾
 
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I mean, if I wanted a watch with a black dial, I would not be happy.
But as I already stated I actually like that grey color they are turning into.
Just gives you an excuse to get another watch with a black dial...
 
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Mine does the same thing if I expose it to bright light. I believe they all do this. Its just the way the black pigment reacts to bright light.

Normal light
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High intensity spot light
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Isn鈥檛 it something like an anti-reflection technology that diffuses or absorbs the light in a peculiar way?
 
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Isn鈥檛 it something like an anti-reflection technology that diffuses or absorbs the light in a peculiar way?

AFAIK, Rolex does not use any AR coating on sapphire. They shine a lot in bright light. This may reduce contrast.
 
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Isn鈥檛 it something like an anti-reflection technology that diffuses or absorbs the light in a peculiar way?
The strap in the comparison pic from Offrdmania is also grey under the spot light so IMO not related to AR technology.
 
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I dont know the answer to reflective coatings question. What I do know if that I have never seen one discolored to that extent in normal light without being baked in an oven or having gone through a fire in a safe.
 
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Is it gray or is it black or is it just a Fresnel reflectance of circa 4% due to intense light hitting sapphire at about 1.7 refractive index compared to the surrounding air which is a smidgen over 1? You can get a similar result with Hesalite.
 
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Is it patina or damage?
What I see is a very lovely watch and the fact it changing hues over time is intriguing and tells a story.
 
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And here is an update with the Milgauss next to a Sea Dweller. The two are photographed in the same conditions, and the SD dial is black (maybe not as black as its ceramic bezel) so its pretty clear that the Milgauss's dial colour is not the result of some trick of the lighting . I am coming around to the grey dial on the Milgauss...for me it can fall into the patina bucket!
 
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I had the Z-blue and think this greying is bloody gorgeous. Wish i'd kept it now to experience this.
 
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Love the fade. Hell we pay premiums for tropical dials etc,... I鈥檇 have its service done by an authorized watch maker. Never let it get near the factory.
 
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Grey is in. Look at the new Tudor. By all accounts its a hit.
 
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Just to mention I had my brothers cream dial Daytona sent in for a full service recently, it looked amazing the colour was very rich compared to my white Daytona. Rolex noted dial needed replacing, I declined. More back and forth and they say that they can鈥檛 service the watch without replacing the dial, I asked how and why that was the case l, after a bit of a wait I get told the dial surface had separated from the dial, I still have the detailed pre service photos and find that very hard to believe, the independent who had taken it apart a few weeks earlier and declined the job on the basis that it needed Rolex parts he couldn鈥檛 source agreed the dial was fine, just cream. Rolex didn鈥檛 want it going back cream, they won in the end and now it鈥檚 getting replaced, and my brother is paying a lot of his own money to fix a defect in that batch of Daytona dials around 2002 that he was perfectly content with keeping.
 
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Just to mention I had my brothers cream dial Daytona sent in for a full service recently, it looked amazing the colour was very rich compared to my white Daytona. Rolex noted dial needed replacing, I declined. More back and forth and they say that they can鈥檛 service the watch without replacing the dial, I asked how and why that was the case l, after a bit of a wait I get told the dial surface had separated from the dial, I still have the detailed pre service photos and find that very hard to believe, the independent who had taken it apart a few weeks earlier and declined the job on the basis that it needed Rolex parts he couldn鈥檛 source agreed the dial was fine, just cream. Rolex didn鈥檛 want it going back cream, they won in the end and now it鈥檚 getting replaced, and my brother is paying a lot of his own money to fix a defect in that batch of Daytona dials around 2002 that he was perfectly content with keeping.
Are they charging extra for the replacement?
 
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Are they charging extra for the replacement?
Yea, a fair bit. And you don鈥檛 get the old one back of course.
 
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Yea, a fair bit. And you don鈥檛 get the old one back of course.
Wow, talk about adding insult to injury.