Darn seeing even one of these cases melted is really sad. People don’t take the time to do a minute of research. I’m still trying to see if I can revive this IWC watch that was in a gold case. The guy had it in has hand for ten minutes and got 325 for the gold case. I’m missing something in that thought process , apparently it’s get stuff in and out as quickly as possible. Whatever I guess not everything has to make sense to me.
It's hard to tell where the old watch band ends and the arm hair begins Congrats on the find, really cool to see especially after the amount of research you did in the last 4 months on these! I don't even want to know what it'll cost to have one of these serviced.
Whoever does (if yours needs service) I hope they send back the level of detail Archer does, would love to see a pdf full of photos of it coming apart and going back together
Yea I’d love to see the photos of it, so many of the movements look kind of filthy and decrepit but after a full service it’d be really cool to see. I’m guessing its not that complicated really as much as it is unusual, as the parts shouldn’t be any smaller per se than a regular watch just the weird triple-plane layout making it strange and interesting
This may be an original dial: https://www.uhreneder.de/de/armbanduhren/vintage-sonstige/movado-polyplan
Says it’s freshed up/ repainted in the discription ,) honestly the only indicator for dial originality I am comfortable using with these is cleanliness. With their non-existant water-resistance, too fresh and no patina whatsoever equals restored for me. I am following along with great interest here, but do we have any examples with some degree of certainty on dial originality?
You are right. I missed that. Not that I can recall/find. But: with the number made I would be surprised if no NOS example lives somewhere in Italy or Japan
