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Willem023
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Is this called officially a 'Clous de Paris dial'?
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Is this called officially a 'Clous de Paris dial'?
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Show Us Your Guilloché (and Faux-Guilloché)
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al128
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could serve as an example for sometimes "more is less" ... damn - slapping a windshield wiper on a guilloche 😒
... or non-guilloche 😉
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gemini4
··Hoarder Of Speed et aliaSo my VC dial is only "textured"??? Not "guilloche"???
Perhaps I should delete it from this thread?
Very Sorry. Not very learned about the technical requirements of Guilloche.
That will change as I soon hope to visit the Breguet Museum in Paris and become expert.
Luckily, I can substitute a picture of my Breguet Heritage Big Date.
It's dial is made for the Guilloche knowledge deficient watch owner. Such as myself.
Perhaps I should delete it from this thread?
Very Sorry. Not very learned about the technical requirements of Guilloche.
That will change as I soon hope to visit the Breguet Museum in Paris and become expert.
Luckily, I can substitute a picture of my Breguet Heritage Big Date.
It's dial is made for the Guilloche knowledge deficient watch owner. Such as myself.
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gemini4
··Hoarder Of Speed et alia
I've got another
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JimInOz
··Melbourne AustraliaGuilloché "style"?
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citizenrich
·So my VC dial is only "textured"??? Not "guilloche"???
Perhaps I should delete it from this thread?
Very Sorry. Not very learned about the technical requirements of Guilloche.
That will change as I soon hope to visit the Breguet Museum in Paris and become expert.
Luckily, I can substitute a picture of my Breguet Heritage Big Date.
It's dial is made for the Guilloche knowledge deficient watch owner. Such as myself.
Maurice Lacroix made a tourneau cased watch called Jours Retrogrades or something like that which looks a lot like that gorgeous Breguet.
The ML was supposed to retail for $8400 but it seems like most of 'em were dumped on the grey market in the $1500 to $2000 range.
I offered some retailer $1000 for a new one and was surprised when he took my $$ and ran lol
I guess it's not really worth much but it's a really nice watch with a legit in-house movement. I'm not sure how Maurice Lacroix stays in business selling $8000 watches for one or two thousand bucks but I guess they've got their margins figured out?
I've worn it 3 or 4 times and it's a sharp watch.
I'll have to see if I can find a macro picture of the dial because it's straight up gorgeous engine turned guilloche goodness...
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TexOmega
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MikiJ
·This was when VC offered "real" Guilloche dials 😀
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cristos71
·A few Constellations 😀
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TexOmega
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citizenrich
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This ^^^ would be the exact watch I recommend every young / new collector build a new collection around.
Does anyone else have dibs?
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JimInOz
··Melbourne AustraliaIn addition to the output from traditional lathe like guilloché machines, there were many more millions of dials produced by hydraulic forming or stamping, similar to coin production.
Once a high quality die stamp was engraved, many dial blanks could be produced to the original pattern at much lesser cost.
I think a number of dials we see are of this format, e.g. Omega "Clous de Paris" or hobnail/waffle dials. I have nothing to substantiate this but would be interested in any comments.
Once a high quality die stamp was engraved, many dial blanks could be produced to the original pattern at much lesser cost.
I think a number of dials we see are of this format, e.g. Omega "Clous de Paris" or hobnail/waffle dials. I have nothing to substantiate this but would be interested in any comments.
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