What do you think about this redial!?

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I just stumbled upon this redial pie pan dog leg (the seller told me that it was repainted). The font has serif and looks good IMO. So what do you think!? If a repainted dial passes the MOY and serif test, is there any other method to detect a redial.
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I mean normally I use the MOY and serif to check if a dial is repainted or not. But if they repainted so good, how could we avoid those repainted dial
 
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I generally try to avoid redials - as a consequence of joining OF - but it’s a nice looking watch and if you think that, and the price is reasonable and reflects the value as a redial, you can be confident that 99.9% of those who notice and admire the watch will have no inkling that it is anything other than a lovely watch.
 
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the point is I try to avoid redials too but sometime it hard to tell if it is a redial or not and I don't want to rely on the honesty of the seller
 
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But you mentioned it WAS a redial.
Yes, the seller told me that. I mean do you see something wrong with that dial to point out that is a redial. I dont want to rely solely on the seller honesty to know if a dial is repainted or not. In this case, should the minute markers must stick to the pie pan edge and the hour markers?! If it is not, so how could we tell this a redial
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It is a nicely done redial.
Sometimes you just have to assess the overall look of a dial.
Check out the doglegs in this thread and compare them to the one you posted.

 
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Yes, the seller told me that. I mean do you see something wrong with that dial to point out that is a redial. I dont want to rely solely on the seller honesty to know if a dial is repainted or not. In this case, should the minute markers must stick to the pie pan edge and the hour markers?! If it is not, so how could we tell this a redial

The fonts of the “n’s” are too uniform
 
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One of the best redials I have seen. Not a clue how anyone could look at that and definitely conclude it’s a redial , without the seller telling you as you say. Also interested what others think.
 
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Personally I’ve spent the last few minutes trying to figure it out and I can’t fault it in a compelling way. I am absolutely no expert like the persons who have replied above, but I have looked at a fair share of these recently.
 
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Are the ticks irregular? As in some lean slightly forwards, others backwards.
 
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This is still doing my head in. can anyone here point to something that shows this is fake? The lettering looks perfect.
 
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The ticks don't do what I expect pie pan ticks to do, they normally have a slight but expected irregularity off the indices, but in every other way I can see after a 30 second scan, it looks original for me. If it is a redial, it is a good one.

Actually, looking harder, even the tick irregularity I look for is kind of there. If that has been redone, I can't tell. I'd use that guy if I had a wrecked Connie and no mistake.
 
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Possibly the OP is trolling us and trying to get us to falsely claim we can tell this is a redial.
 
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It is very well done and if this had been presented as an original dial I suspect it would have divided the house.
If I needed a dial done I would want to know who did this work.

The only real issue I have is the spacing of the minute ( and 5 min) ticks from the pie pan edge and indices.
Some pie pan references are more like this but generally doglegs are hard up against the indices and when there is a space it’s not as great as this.

Hard to tell from the angled picture but I suspect that if you draw a vertical through the star it would be too close to the first L of Constellation.
 
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I think the serifs are overpronounced, difficult to show it but I think you can see at "Chronometer" C and M

 
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I was bored at the airport, waiting for a delayed flight, so I scrolled through all the pages of the “show us your 168.005”.

Two things jump out:

The only real issue I have is the spacing of the minute ( and 5 min) ticks from the pie pan edge and indices.
Some pie pan references are more like this but generally doglegs are hard up against the indices and when there is a space it’s not as great as this.

With the baton marker, like the OP watch, the spacing is almost non existent indeed on every example.

There are some dials with spacing, but they seem to be exclusively with the type of indices below (don’t know how they’re called)



The second thing is that I haven’t seen an example is a mix of gold/steel furniture on the dial itself. The omega symbol/hand/indices/date window are either all gold or all steel.

The OP’s watch above seem to have a weird mix.
 
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With the baton marker, like the OP watch, the spacing is almost non existent indeed on every example.

There are some dials with spacing, but they seem to be exclusively with the type of indices below (don’t know how they’re called)

The second thing is that I haven’t seen an example is a mix of gold/steel furniture on the dial itself. The omega symbol/hand/indices/date window are either all gold or all steel.

The OP’s watch above seem to have a weird mix.
1. Yes, IMO in this case, they didn't pull the hour markers out, just clean the surface and keep the orginal surface layer, then repaint onto it so they could not make the ticks close to the hour markers. This should be a hint.
2. The different colour is due to the light. Looks at the date frame and second hand, half gold and half silver. In fact, I think all the hands, hour markers, omega logo are steel, not gold/yellow. I have another angle here.

3. The rest of the watch is completely junk. Look at this fake case back


So you should be more careful if you want to avoid a redial. And the dial above is not even an expensive one, if they'd spent more money, pull all the hour markers out then welded them nicely, may be we don't have a chance to tell the differences. Some sellers claim this kind of dial is original because they just "restore" the print text, the dial is still original. Imagines they sell you a watch like that for a hefty price. But if we could not tell the difference, then why should we care much about that anyway. Just FYI 😁
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