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conorwrichards
·Hello all,
I really like this: https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/...1200/lot-80ab248d-41d6-4b7c-86f0-b49600d4d733
However, I'm trying to figure out what's going on with the printing of base 1 mile, telemeter and 15 pulsations. Specifically, the dial overall is aged and degraded but those three sections of printing are cleaner but consistent in font/style with the rest of the watch. Also, importantly, those three sections have a clean rectangle around them.
My hypotheses:
1. These three sections alone were reprinted as it was deemed important for the function of the watch (most likely in a professional sense of function)
2. These three sections were printed (at the same time that the whole dial was printed) with a different technique/finish to the rest of the dial for reasons of future performance, i.e. that the rest of the dial might degrade but these sections have some kind of laminate finish over them to keep them more legible and therefore that the user of those scales could find them on the dial more easily (but the actual reading of the scale would remain difficult so I doubt this is the explanation)
3. Some other reason …
What do you think? Or, have you seen this before?
Many thanks!
I really like this: https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/...1200/lot-80ab248d-41d6-4b7c-86f0-b49600d4d733
However, I'm trying to figure out what's going on with the printing of base 1 mile, telemeter and 15 pulsations. Specifically, the dial overall is aged and degraded but those three sections of printing are cleaner but consistent in font/style with the rest of the watch. Also, importantly, those three sections have a clean rectangle around them.
My hypotheses:
1. These three sections alone were reprinted as it was deemed important for the function of the watch (most likely in a professional sense of function)
2. These three sections were printed (at the same time that the whole dial was printed) with a different technique/finish to the rest of the dial for reasons of future performance, i.e. that the rest of the dial might degrade but these sections have some kind of laminate finish over them to keep them more legible and therefore that the user of those scales could find them on the dial more easily (but the actual reading of the scale would remain difficult so I doubt this is the explanation)
3. Some other reason …
What do you think? Or, have you seen this before?
Many thanks!
