Tropical 2998-1 on Tropical Watch web site

watchyouwant · May 7, 2022

michael e
Whoa! That music 😁
So the black dial paint is removed to within a 1000th of a MM showing the bare brass underneath?
Anyone dare try this with a vintage Speedmaster dial?
Anyone?

This is fairly old. It started many years ago at a German Rolex collectors site with bezel colours. Baking and Coca Cola. Since then, everything has changed. I tried it with a few old dials and it works.... Since then, I'm not longer looking for brown dials.

michael e · May 7, 2022

watchyouwant
This is fairly old. It started many years ago at a German Rolex collectors site with bezel colours. Baking and Coca Cola. Since then, everything has changed. I tried it with a few old dials and it works.... Since then, I'm not longer looking for brown dials.

The bezel any idiot can bake, I should know, I tried it myself 😁
Now the dial is another thing, I have yet to see concrete proof that it can be done to leave a perfect surface with original lume not knackered and burnt.
I don’t mean the Coke version of removing the paint but actually turning black paint brown to leave a perfect brown surface, this doesn’t include the ones that look like they have been thrown in a fire like we see sometimes.
The last tropical Speedmaster shown here looks good to me and if I am wrong it will certainly not be the first time.😝

keepsonticking · May 7, 2022

All this discussion of creating brown dials. The bottom line is: If you can't reasonably prove the dial was purposely altered, it is a brown dial. There will never be any way to truly know the process, whether it was years of exposure to moisture, sunlight, etc or hours exposed to an oven. You'll have to buy what you like and what you see. And I concur, Jacek is the most honorable dealer I know, and amiable. My 2 cents: we should all be more interested in DON bezels being reproduced and aged.

Tropical 2998-1 on Tropical Watch web site

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