Redial?

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Hi,

I am looking at a not very well known brand of watch.
I am wondering if it is a redial?

Can anyone comment?

Thanks,
 
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I'd say original.
Why would anyone redial an obscure 1950s brand?
The quality is very good and all outer colours match the date hand.

I'd say someone has found a stash of 1950s NOS items somewhere and is flogging them off.
 
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Thanks for the reply. I also thought it was real but I wanted to ask here.

Have you seen many of these around?

I added some more photos of another watch. This one I am not sure about, the photo quality is poor as well.
I am still learning how to detect a redial. What do you think of this watch?


I'd say original.
Why would anyone redial an obscure 1950s brand?
The quality is very good and all outer colours match the date hand.

I'd say someone has found a stash of 1950s NOS items somewhere and is flogging them off.
 
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I'd say original.
Why would anyone redial an obscure 1950s brand?
The quality is very good and all outer colours match the date hand.

I'd say someone has found a stash of 1950s NOS items somewhere and is flogging them off.
Agreed, but when the buyer is asking £800 for the watch I suppose the cost of a redial would be more than covered. I must also agree on your point about the overall quality being good, I sometimes stumble across these obscure brands online and it just makes me think that during the 40s 50s 60s how much pride these companies took when it come to finishing.
 
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Both movements are based on the Valjoux 90 ebauche.

http://www.ranfft.de/cgi-bin/bidfun-db.cgi?10&ranfft&2&2uswk&Valjoux_90

Valjoux was a company that produced good quality movements which they sold to smaller watch companies that could not afford their own research and development departments. This was especially true for complications like chronographs and moon phases which were uncommon, but very popular.

Nowadays, companies like Seiko, Citizen and Sea-gull (and others) do exactly the same thing.
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