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Why Does It Have To Be A Redial :(

  1. dsio Ash @ ΩF Staff Member Feb 16, 2013

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  2. LouS Mrs Nataf's Other Son Staff Member Feb 16, 2013

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    seller does say its a redial (hurray for a forthright seller), but I'm interested in other people's opinions. You fellows with Polerouters in hand, what say you?
     
  3. dsio Ash @ ΩF Staff Member Feb 16, 2013

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    So there's a chance its original? I saw it and was thinking that is just stunning
     
  4. LouS Mrs Nataf's Other Son Staff Member Feb 16, 2013

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    Dunno, just posing the question. I like it too, maybe even as a redial.
     
  5. dsio Ash @ ΩF Staff Member Feb 16, 2013

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    It looks just so deeply rose coloured, which works so well against the black dial
     
  6. ulackfocus Feb 16, 2013

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    It's definitely a redial. The 12 - 6 crosshair goes through the wrong letters - for example it shouldn't be on the line of the N in Genève, it should be between the N and È. It's also missing SWISS at the bottom.

    Nice looking watch though. I'd love to have it as an original dial. Passed one up a couple years ago and that's one of my bigger regrets.
     
  7. MMMD unaffiliated curmudgeonly absurdist & polyologist Feb 16, 2013

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    I think it's a very nice redial. In old- fashioned redial style, they left out "SWISS". Here's a similar one (maybe yellow gold?):

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    This watch was mentioned in - ironically enough - a WUS Omega thread involving at least one regular in this forum:

    http://forums.watchuseek.com/f20/vintage-omega-what-model-723949.html

    ***EDIT*** was loading this up when ulackfocus replied. Dial illustrates his point.
     
  8. dsio Ash @ ΩF Staff Member Feb 16, 2013

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    Damn it looks nice on bracelet
     
  9. LouS Mrs Nataf's Other Son Staff Member Feb 16, 2013

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    quite clearly a redial. Good find CIS-WIS MMMD
     
  10. ulackfocus Feb 16, 2013

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    Here's a pic of mine - a little better than the pic from WUS:

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    It's with only a desk lamp. I can shoot a better one tomorrow if needed, but this will get the point across about the alignment of the fonts in relation to the 12 - 6 crosshair.
     
  11. MMMD unaffiliated curmudgeonly absurdist & polyologist Feb 16, 2013

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    Heresy, I know, but... this is the rare redial that I would knowingly consider buying.
     
  12. LouS Mrs Nataf's Other Son Staff Member Feb 16, 2013

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  13. MMMD unaffiliated curmudgeonly absurdist & polyologist Feb 16, 2013

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    Great. Now I can't get that whistle-song out of my head.
     
  14. LouS Mrs Nataf's Other Son Staff Member Feb 16, 2013

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    the Colonel Bogey March. I was trying to find a clip of Jack Hawkings saying "Madness...madness" but this'll do
     
  15. ulackfocus Feb 16, 2013

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    Here - this is a better song to have stuck in your head:

     
  16. MMMD unaffiliated curmudgeonly absurdist & polyologist Feb 16, 2013

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    I'll say it again: very nice redial.

     
  17. LouS Mrs Nataf's Other Son Staff Member Feb 16, 2013

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    A classic of American political life! Good times....
     
  18. MMMD unaffiliated curmudgeonly absurdist & polyologist Feb 16, 2013

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    Good song. Really resonates, because I can drive to peach country in like 30 minutes. :)
     
  19. ulackfocus Feb 16, 2013

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    I can walk there. Jersey is the garden state after all. Used to ride our dirt bikes through corn fields and apple orchards.
     
  20. MMMD unaffiliated curmudgeonly absurdist & polyologist Feb 16, 2013

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    I didn't believe Joisey was peach country - corn and apples, sure, but peaches? - but then I came across this fascinating treatise:

    http://njaes.rutgers.edu/peach/statistics/nj-peach-history.pdf

    Apparently NJ has been peach country for like 333 years. I stand corrected.