To relume or not

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Whatever happened to this dial, to me it looks very beautiful in that way, It would be greater without the erased wording but perfection is not in this world!
As @mozambique says, reluming will make the dial appears redone or deeply modified. If I were @robocaspar i definitively keep it untouched 馃憤
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That's a little drastic lol. How about a picture of the watch with a proper second hand?

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No worries, I will definitely be leaving it as is. I quite like the contrast of the white markers.

@gemini4, it is browner than the pictures I posted, unfortunately it is hard to capture the color with my Nexus.
For leaving it alone for posterity, watch gods will be pleased with you.
 
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Wow ... it seems as if someone forgot it on the moon on July 20th 1969 and someone else recovered it after about 45 years
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I am no expert but it looks to me like someone has put something (a cleaning solution of some description) on the dial to clean it and then had a wee scrub.

The marking over the PROFESSIONAL look like an unprofessional (ba doom tissssh) cleaning job.

However it was achieved I think it looks superb.
 
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Narrow T dial + scrub on Professional, makes me think someone was trying to ready the dial for a straight-lug franken....

That said, put me in the "leave it as-is" camp. It's very attractive.
 
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I like it. Tropical and original. The professional "scrubbed" area is certainly a problem but, thats an honest to goodness tropical right there. Leave it alone..
 
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Thanks for commenting everyone!

Abrod520's straight - lug Franken theory does seem plausible. Why on earth someone would think scrubbing that off wouldn't unbalance the dial color is beyond me.

It's sitting in a 105.012 now and I find it
fitting since it's the actual reference that went to the moon.

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I would no touch that beauty


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