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Hello,
I would like to ask for your help, what color do you think the dial was ? It propably lost his color from the sun.

 
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Agreed, blue. And wow, that is really extreme.
 
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Agreed, blue.
Okey thanks, but can you explain me why do you think that ?
 
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Oh, so you don't just want the answer, but a whole lesson? 🤪

Spend a few years looking at old dials and learning how they degrade.
 
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Oh, so you don't just want the answer, but a whole lesson? 🤪

Spend a few years looking at old dials and learning how they degrade.
Thats interesting for me because i have geneve in automatic movement: blue/red/green/brown and i dont know how you know it was blue 🧐😅
 
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Oh, so you don't just want the answer, but a whole lesson? 🤪

Spend a few years looking at old dials and learning how they degrade.
Okey, thanks for your help, appreciate that🙏 it's still interesting how you knew it was blue 😆💪
 
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Agree blue.
It comes with experience of seeing dials at various stages of degradation. It’s common the see the blue dials of the late 60’s/early 70’s degrade to this colour. It usually starts around the lume and hour markers and in extreme cases like yours can spread to most or all of the dial.
 
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Agree blue.
It comes with experience of seeing dials at various stages of degradation. It’s common the see the blue dials of the late 60’s/early 70’s degrade to this colour. It usually starts around the lume and hour markers and in extreme cases like yours can spread to most or all of the dial.
Thanks for your answer 🙏 now its all clear💪
 
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The Omega forum help desk is manned by high schoolers today as usual.
 
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Indeed blue is the color that always tends to fail the worst like this, it does look kinda cool like this though with extreme patina, I’d probably just enjoy it like that if it’s in good running order.
 
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You might find this thread interesting lots of examples and even more opinions on topic of patina. As you look at many vintage references you will see that certain references tend to change color in recognizable manner over time, most likely due to UV exposure and/ or moisture. Sometimes uniformly, like your example, and sometimes partial or blotchy. Some like this, some don’t it’s matter of taste. But in general a watch with significant patina has seen more UV light and possibly moisture and lived a harder life that a watch without, so look carefully at condition of movement which may also show wear or damage.
 
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The Omega forum help desk is manned by high schoolers today as usual.
By volunteers who have better things to do then show 20 examples of blue fading watches, then a short history lesson on the problem of blue pigments leading into a chemistry discussion on n the effect of UV rays on blue colored compounds.

Followed by someone that could have easily done a quick google to find the above.


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Just happened to see this one, and remembered the thread with the skeptical OP.

 
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By volunteers who have better things to do then show 20 examples of blue fading watches, then a short history lesson on the problem of blue pigments leading into a chemistry discussion on n the effect of UV rays on blue colored compounds.

Followed by someone that could have easily done a quick google to find the above.


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Hi Foo I get what you are saying, but wouldnt it save some time not to answer at all instead of ridicule the OP?

It seems like every time I open OF there is less new treads and less new interesting things to read. So I am thinking that it would have been better to welcome new contibutors instead of scare them away in their first post.
 
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Hi Foo I get what you are saying, but wouldnt it save some time not to answer at all instead of ridicule the OP?

It seems like every time I open OF there is less new treads and less new interesting things to read. So I am thinking that it would have been better to welcome new contibutors instead of scare them away in their first post.
When you make a couple thousand posts giving away information for free that was hard earned. You tend to be brief to save time.

When you start people on the path and they still apparently do not want to do their own research it’s a little frustrating.
 
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When you make a couple thousand posts giving away information for free that was hard earned. You tend to be brief to save time.

When you start people on the path and they still apparently do not want to do their own research it’s a little frustrating.
I highly value the opinion and time of @Foo2rama and @Dan S and others with many years of knowledge and experience, brief or not. With new members I don’t mind offering brief explanation ( if I have something to offer) and maybe a resource to look up to help start them on good part. But I’ve been active for much less time so I understand the frustration.