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mcgyver
·I was asked to try and get this bezel back in order i while ago.
It was in a pretty poor state with the printed indexes lost from the 40- to the 50-marking.
The glue on the back had turned to gue and most of the black paint was gone.
A careful clean using white spirit and the sticky glue came off and the black paint. All the intact minute markings survived the cleaning process so I let them be so the insert would be as original as possible.
This version has milled numbers so the old lume in these was removed and replaced with a mixture of lume/paint.
A cliché to print new minute markers was made and the insert was placed in a jig, masked of the ok areas, and then reprinted the areas missing indexes.
The back of the numbers got a protective layer of varnish and was finally painted black.
End result:
Next up is making a complete replacement insert for a watch that is missing its insert. 😀
It was in a pretty poor state with the printed indexes lost from the 40- to the 50-marking.
The glue on the back had turned to gue and most of the black paint was gone.
A careful clean using white spirit and the sticky glue came off and the black paint. All the intact minute markings survived the cleaning process so I let them be so the insert would be as original as possible.
This version has milled numbers so the old lume in these was removed and replaced with a mixture of lume/paint.
A cliché to print new minute markers was made and the insert was placed in a jig, masked of the ok areas, and then reprinted the areas missing indexes.
The back of the numbers got a protective layer of varnish and was finally painted black.
End result:
Next up is making a complete replacement insert for a watch that is missing its insert. 😀
