Worst Redials

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Just remember this one next time someone says that visible snailing (ridges) on a sub-dial is evidence of originality.

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Some of these you post are actually hard to spot what is wrong.

Maybe we need a ”good redials” thread, a good redial does probably damage the market more than obvious bad redials that anyone can spot.
My totally untrained eye can't tell that these are re-dials.
 
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My totally untrained eye can't tell that these are re-dials.
This Thread will help you 'train your eye.' After you have looked at enough of them a bell will go off in your head when you see something wrong. For a collector there is no such thing as a 'good' redial.
 
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I might be able to look past the blundering redial to score that beautiful bracelet...
 
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This Is a tricky one...
No lume on the dial but it states ' T SWISS T '
 
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Isn’t it a beauty? 😵‍💫

And only 880€ „because it comes without box and papers“. Oh, well.

 
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This Is a tricky one...
No lume on the dial but it states ' T SWISS T '

Interesting find. I’m not terribly familiar with vintage UN, but I’ve seen enough missing hour markers in my day to wonder if the dial is original, but the non-lumed hour indices are not (ie the original hour markers were lumed with tritium, but replaced with non-lumed markers)?

Another possibility: the dial and hour markers are original, and the tritium lume was restricted to the hands - but the lume on the hands has worn off with time. I see what may potentially be “slots” on the hands that could have held lume, but would need to see more pics to be certain.
 
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Not an Omega, but definitely worthy of this thread.
I could swear someone posted the same dial with an Omega logo a few weeks ago.
Asking for info (re: his mother's watch)


Ah, nope.
Raised numbers but different dial.

Good candidate for this thread nonetheless.
 
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I could swear someone posted the same dial with an Omega logo a few weeks ago.
Asking for info (re: his mother's watch)


Ah, nope.
Raised numbers but different dial.

Good candidate for this thread nonetheless.

Is the owner still looking for its calendar function???
 
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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/193517672450

This seller has a history of some pretty atrocious examples, but somehow people keep paying good money for them 😕
Not only is the dial a total work of fiction, the watch itself is too of course with movement and case totally out of sync.
So far so ebay, but what I don't like about this especially is the air of legitimacy the seller tries to present.

The wall of text about the movement is like a distraction technique and the sort of thing that might catch out noobs, meanwhile there's no mention that the hands are inauthentic or the fact it's not even a Seamaster. Maybe he was too busy with that luminous orange highlighter pen 😉
 
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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/193517672450

This seller has a history of some pretty atrocious examples, but somehow people keep paying good money for them 😕
Not only is the dial a total work of fiction, the watch itself is too of course with movement and case totally out of sync.
So far so ebay, but what I don't like about this especially is the air of legitimacy the seller tries to present.

The wall of text about the movement is like a distraction technique and the sort of thing that might catch out noobs, meanwhile there's no mention that the hands are inauthentic or the fact it's not even a Seamaster. Maybe he was too busy with that luminous orange highlighter pen 😉
So, more of a rewatch than a redial
 
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72c 72c

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/193517672450

This seller has a history of some pretty atrocious examples, but somehow people keep paying good money for them 😕
Not only is the dial a total work of fiction, the watch itself is too of course with movement and case totally out of sync.
So far so ebay, but what I don't like about this especially is the air of legitimacy the seller tries to present.

The wall of text about the movement is like a distraction technique and the sort of thing that might catch out noobs, meanwhile there's no mention that the hands are inauthentic or the fact it's not even a Seamaster. Maybe he was too busy with that luminous orange highlighter pen 😉

Don't be so tough

The header describes the watch "Vintage Homme" i guess he couldn't find the remaining letters for "Homage" and added an "M" instead !

Out of sheer desperation !!
 
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