You’ve waited very patiently for a response.
I should also add that it might have helped if you’d posted a few more photos of your watch and, perhaps, photos of an original model so that any OF viewer might have a general idea of where you want to go with this. It might have helped if you had expounded on why you want to relume.
I like Certinas but, since all of mine are over fifty years old, none of them lume - and I have no interest in re-luming, although I have spent time sourcing and re-fitting correct original hands to one of my DS models.
Your watch looks, from the single photo you’ve posted, to be a nice looking example with no obvious blemishes. So, my initial view is that if I were you (and I appreciate that I’m not) I would leave it as it is.
My secondary view is that if you don’t want to leave it alone, either because there’s something wrong with it that you haven’t mentioned or because the lack of lume is so irritating that you’ve fallen out of love with this watch then, either relume it or locate and acquire an alternative model and move this one on.
Thanks for all the thoughtful replies. I apologize for not posting more photos, and now this is with the watchmaker - so I can't take more photos. I just picked this up on ebay - Certina DS-2s are generally pretty hard to find in good condition, and this one is as Spruce says is in good condition. It is an early version, 1968, with original early style (more delicate) bracelet. I don't want to go overboard, but do want to bring it back to as solid an original form as possible, without being slavish. I am ordering a NOS crystal and yellow shock absorber as well.
In my mind the hands look sort of bad, inconsistent with the rest of the watch. The contrast with the white hands just stands out all the more. I think my inclination is to have him do it. I'll take a look at what the yellow lume he has looks like - I'm guessing it is in line with more of an aged yellow?
I will report back.
Now I’m confused. The hands are supposed to be white, as are the indices- the thin slits in the middle of the hands are supposed to have the yellow lume- which match the pips at the tops of each indicie- I assume you mean for your watchmaker to just infill the slits from behind (which would be the relume I was referring to) and not covering the entire face of the hands with yellow lume.
Believe it or not, this watch came from Casablanca...just around the corner from the Mediterranean and in a beautiful blue section of the Atlantic. I like to think of the watch as coming very much from its place.
