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路Hey everyone,
about 10 days ago, I bought this beautiful Datejust (my first Rolex ever) from a trusted seller on C24. I'm abolutely in love with the watch, though I thought I should ask the pro's whether you guys think that it actually is all original.
My "research" before I bought the watch:馃摉
Lume plots and hands show an almost identical slight vanilla-hue, not extremely strong but in line with others of that age (1970). The hands show some stronger patina on the metal, though this is hardly visible on the wrist. As it is from 1970, the non-sigma dial should/can be correct if I'm not mistaken. The date-wheel has all the open 6's and 9's one could wish for. Writing on the dial is crisp and spacing in line with many other DJ of that time.
The jubilee is obviously a replacement (198x-ish), but the condition is pretty good so thats hardly a negative. Older Jubilees come up from time to time, even cheaper than what I could sell mine for.
The case has obviously been polished, but it is quite well done, isn't it? Didn't take off too much metal I think.
If anyone could just approve of my "research" above, or just confirm that dial and hands are correct and polishing is not too bad, I would sleep better by far. To be honest, I'm a bit afraid of the answer. 馃槻
So, here are the photos:
This one shows the vanilla-lume quite well:
about 10 days ago, I bought this beautiful Datejust (my first Rolex ever) from a trusted seller on C24. I'm abolutely in love with the watch, though I thought I should ask the pro's whether you guys think that it actually is all original.
My "research" before I bought the watch:馃摉
Lume plots and hands show an almost identical slight vanilla-hue, not extremely strong but in line with others of that age (1970). The hands show some stronger patina on the metal, though this is hardly visible on the wrist. As it is from 1970, the non-sigma dial should/can be correct if I'm not mistaken. The date-wheel has all the open 6's and 9's one could wish for. Writing on the dial is crisp and spacing in line with many other DJ of that time.
The jubilee is obviously a replacement (198x-ish), but the condition is pretty good so thats hardly a negative. Older Jubilees come up from time to time, even cheaper than what I could sell mine for.
The case has obviously been polished, but it is quite well done, isn't it? Didn't take off too much metal I think.
If anyone could just approve of my "research" above, or just confirm that dial and hands are correct and polishing is not too bad, I would sleep better by far. To be honest, I'm a bit afraid of the answer. 馃槻
So, here are the photos:
This one shows the vanilla-lume quite well:
