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jlhansen
·Hi guys! Can anyone help me verifying if this dial is original or repainted?
Would appreciate your help! 😀
Best regards,
Jon
Would appreciate your help! 😀
Best regards,
Jon
Original or repainted dial - Help please!
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JimInOz
··Melbourne AustraliaMy immediate reaction is that the dial has been re-painted.
The markings are wonky/irregular and ill defined.
The Omega text is blobby and I can see no Swiss Made.
The sub-dial still has a nice clean pattern and the Pontife hands are quite nice.
While we expect perfection these days, at the time this dial was made, printing equipment and techniques were not as sophisticated as they are now, even though, I still think it's re done.
The markings are wonky/irregular and ill defined.
The Omega text is blobby and I can see no Swiss Made.
The sub-dial still has a nice clean pattern and the Pontife hands are quite nice.
While we expect perfection these days, at the time this dial was made, printing equipment and techniques were not as sophisticated as they are now, even though, I still think it's re done.
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jlhansen
·My immediate reaction is that the dial has been re-painted.
The markings are wonky/irregular and ill defined.
The Omega text is blobby and I can see no Swiss Made.
The sub-dial still has a nice clean pattern and the Pontife hands are quite nice.
While we expect perfection these days, at the time this dial was made, printing equipment and techniques were not as sophisticated as they are now, even though, I still think it's re done.
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Spruce
··Sunburst dial fanNice looking watch in many respects and although doubt may eat at you, 99% of watch wearers would neither know nor care
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jlhansen
·Here is another photo if that helps 😀
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Spruce
··Sunburst dial fanI hadn’t appreciated that you didn’t own the watch.
Although photos, particularly through crystals, can distort if you look at your photos, the minute markers appear to vary and lack the consistency that you might have expected.
Although photos, particularly through crystals, can distort if you look at your photos, the minute markers appear to vary and lack the consistency that you might have expected.
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bubba48
·If redial, it's a good redial.
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jlhansen
·I hadn’t appreciated that you didn’t own the watch.
Although photos, particularly through crystals, can distort if you look at your photos, the minute markers appear to vary and lack the consistency that you might have expected.
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BrokenSkunk
·I am not an expert, but one of the tells that I look for is alignment of the dial print. Where you have a subdial with concentric rings as we do here, it's incredibly easy to spot mis-alignment. Here the 20 second marker overshoots the outer ring, whilst the 25 second marker appears to undershoot. It's fractional, the rest of the markers look OK.
The other thind that looks off is the drill marks at 1,3,5,7,9 & 11 o'clock. I've never seen them quite like that before. Could this be left over marks where there were once hour markers? Would anyone go to that much effort?
The other thind that looks off is the drill marks at 1,3,5,7,9 & 11 o'clock. I've never seen them quite like that before. Could this be left over marks where there were once hour markers? Would anyone go to that much effort?
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Clelow
·There also appears to be a thickness to the print which is greater than one sees with original factory printing.
