Why is it that some of these watches have the Months in English but the Day of the week in a different language? Custom done? Thanks

 

ummmm different places that they were sold??

You're American, aren't you?

 

Hello

 

That’s not a very good answer

 

Show an example of what you mean

 

Oh it took me quite some time to realize what you were asking hahaha I thought you were asking why some watches have different languages than other watches which is obviously because they are produced for and sold in different markets. My bad!

 

I’ve seen examples where the month dial is in English but the day window has French or German days

 

Presumably unmatched service replacements, n'est-ce pas?

 

yes seems likely people are mixing and matching, but also sometimes depending on the month and the abbreviation it can looks like english so was just wondering about specific examples

 

well there are multiple problems in this case, primarily it's a redial, and a bad one. That could be the reason for the mismatch, or if the original dial was also in english, then someone swapped out the day disc

 

no to mention the mismatched H/M hands and the wrong subdial hand on the date.
In fact the only thing decent on that watch is the quite lovely moonphase disc, I want it !!

 

That one is on the bay now but I saw one here on OF but can’t find it yet

 

This one was mine, everything in french, the above was probably similar in terms of the language, before the redial...

 

to be clear, I'm only interested in the moonphase disc itself, for which I would pay a few hundred, not the rest of the watch, which I have not checked on ebay, but I'm sure is priced in the many thousands.....

 

Asking 4K. I was just questioning why I’ve seen that configuration.

 

Here’s one I saw that I like the look of but don’t know if it’s authentic or not

 

dial looks original, obviously lots of patina. I think someone just swapped out the day disc with the wrong language. I'm not sure what's going on with the case, would need more pics, caseback inside/out, movement, crown, etc. minute hand looks wrong. whole thing could be a bit franken, hard to tell from just one photo.

 

Here’s a couple of pics of the watch. They aren’t great but that’s what’s posted.

 

yah not really helpful. we need to see the markings, serial and ref number and UG logos, etc, or the lack thereof. I don't recognize that case offhand, which is why I'm asking. also the condition on the case vs the dial doesn't match at all, etc, etc