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·Hi Everyone - I wanted to share what I think is an expansion to the known 1016 dial variants (soon to be posted on Explorer1016.com) that I'm planning to term the Mark 0 matte dial.
At first I thought it was a redial but upon close comparison the Rolex and SCOC text are from the Type 2 gilt dial (picture below) and the Swiss T<25 text is from the Type 4 gilt dial.
Here are some mash-ups of the two dials and side by side comparisons of the text.
The Type 4 gilt is the earliest 1016 with a T<25 designation and non-chapter ring dial, which is probably why that was used for the Swiss text. The “bandaid” texture lume matches other watches from the 1.73m serial that this watch has so it wouldn’t make sense as a service dial either. Reacts to UV like other bandaid lume (spotted reactive "crystals" embedded in mostly non-reactive lume).
Would be great to see if anyone else has one or has seen one.
Cheers,
Andrew
At first I thought it was a redial but upon close comparison the Rolex and SCOC text are from the Type 2 gilt dial (picture below) and the Swiss T<25 text is from the Type 4 gilt dial.
Here are some mash-ups of the two dials and side by side comparisons of the text.
The Type 4 gilt is the earliest 1016 with a T<25 designation and non-chapter ring dial, which is probably why that was used for the Swiss text. The “bandaid” texture lume matches other watches from the 1.73m serial that this watch has so it wouldn’t make sense as a service dial either. Reacts to UV like other bandaid lume (spotted reactive "crystals" embedded in mostly non-reactive lume).
Would be great to see if anyone else has one or has seen one.
Cheers,
Andrew
