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  1. heccsat Jan 10, 2018

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    Hi,
    What do you think about this one? It is located close to me in a vintage watch shop, the seller states that it has an original dial, but I have my concerns.
    I also asked for advice in another topic, and got a positive and a negative feedback about it, so I don't feel closer to the solution.
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    Thank you in advance.
    heccsat
     
  2. bgrisso Jan 10, 2018

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    Do you have any more pics? Caseback, inside caseback, movement, etc?
    The dial itself looks original to me....
     
  3. heccsat Jan 10, 2018

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    Unfortunately only this one. I have not seen it yet in person. One concern which I've been told is"I've never seen a dial with multiple fonts for the same numbers (as far as the 3s and 6s and the "1000" are concerned)..."
     
  4. Mazoue Jan 10, 2018

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    The sub-dials look wrong to me. Shouldn't the numbers be radial?

    Below is a picture of a watch with a very similar dial that I have since sold that I know had a genuine dial (there had been some debate and the watchmaker helped verify that it was all original).

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  5. Larry S Color Commentator for the Hyperbole. Jan 10, 2018

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    Well we just learned again not to judge a book by its cover did we not? Take pics of case back inside caseback and movement.
     
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  6. Larry S Color Commentator for the Hyperbole. Jan 10, 2018

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    Yes that’s a warning sign.
     
  7. Larry S Color Commentator for the Hyperbole. Jan 10, 2018

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    Hard to say definitively. Radial sub dials predominate but there are a few. Need more pics
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  8. sdre Jan 10, 2018

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    Learn something new every day. :)
     
  9. ELV web Jan 10, 2018

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    The second watch in the sala comment is a redial. I think the subdial in the OP watch is a give away it is a redial
     
    Edited Jan 13, 2018
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  10. Larry S Color Commentator for the Hyperbole. Jan 10, 2018

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    I had heard that some of the Sala b&w pics were redials and the bezel on the A Carrelli is wrong but are there also redial problems with the color plates?
     
    Edited Jan 11, 2018
  11. LouS Mrs Nataf's Other Son Staff Member Jan 12, 2018

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    Yes. The only images that can be trsuted categorically are the images from the UG archives reproduced in small size and low-res
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