What happened to this dial

I"m not sure that's dust...
It looks to me like a combination of corrosion and worn paint - a combination which won't clean off when the dial is put through a machine.

Looks very bad. Down in the area of the "Made" text you can see some of what is probably the original lacquer. Lots of cracks by the looks of it outside of the minute track which appear to be in the dial paint. Could be the cracks were there and someone tried to "clean" the dial and just removed the lacquer but in a very harsh manner as all the pie pan high points have gone. Or the paint cracked after the lacquer was removed as the paint dried out. Doesn't really matter as it is ruined now.


What machine are you thinking about? We don't put dials through the movement cleaning machine if that's what you're thinking.

Cheers, Chris

This dial might be an example of what would happen if you did! 😜
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