have a good long look at the dial and all the numbers you can see that they are hand painted not machine made, and even the circle with the second spacing , see how the spacing between the second markers are uneven ?
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| Author: | coxolfi [ Thu Jan 05, 2012 9:54 am ] |
| Post subject: | navitimer... |
wath do you think about this one ? http://cgi.ebay.fr/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie ... _500wt_952 thanks ! |
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| Author: | Dracha [ Fri Jan 06, 2012 12:08 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: navitimer... |
needs a new dial, hands, sliderulering etc as they have all been repainted replace those and you have a nice looking watch |
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| Author: | cruvon [ Fri Jan 06, 2012 2:19 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: navitimer... |
Dracha wrote: needs a new dial, hands, sliderulering etc as they have all been repainted replace those and you have a nice looking watch just curious, how does one tell if a dial has been repainted? It did look a bit too clean to me on first instance. I know it comes with experience but a cheat sheet method for me?:). Comparing the dial with an original, I noticed the fonts on the numbers in the inner and outer circle are different, they are bolder in the original dial, is that the correct and the only difference? |
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| Author: | Dracha [ Fri Jan 06, 2012 2:51 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: navitimer... |
have a good long look at the dial and all the numbers you can see that they are hand painted not machine made, and even the circle with the second spacing , see how the spacing between the second markers are uneven ?
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| Author: | cruvon [ Sat Jan 07, 2012 4:51 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: navitimer... |
Dracha wrote: have a good long look at the dial and all the numbers you can see that they are hand painted not machine made, and even the circle with the second spacing , see how the spacing between the second markers are uneven ? Thanks for the clues to look for. I would think this would take a lot of effort from the fakers part to been get the dial looking as it is, looks a very painful job trying paint those numbers but thankfully can be detected. |
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| Author: | Roffensian [ Sat Jan 07, 2012 5:05 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: navitimer... |
cruvon wrote: Thanks for the clues to look for. I would think this would take a lot of effort from the fakers part to been get the dial looking as it is, looks a very painful job trying paint those numbers but thankfully can be detected. It's not a fake, just an amateur attempt to restore. |
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| Author: | Dracha [ Sun Jan 08, 2012 1:56 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: navitimer... |
Roffensian wrote: It's not a fake, just an amateur attempt to restore. agreed , the case and movement and even the dial and hands are all original but someone attempted to 'restore' it |
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| Author: | Bill in Sacramento [ Sun Jan 08, 2012 10:05 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: navitimer... |
I think the handset belongs to a post-1963 model, and probably the rotating bezel chapter. It doesn't look like it meets the dial properly? Is it possible that it (maybe the hands, too) are from a modern Navitimer? I'm full of questions today. |
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| Author: | Roffensian [ Sun Jan 08, 2012 12:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: navitimer... |
Bill in Sacramento wrote: I think the handset belongs to a post-1963 model, and probably the rotating bezel chapter. It doesn't look like it meets the dial properly? Is it possible that it (maybe the hands, too) are from a modern Navitimer? I'm full of questions today. I've seen a few 'aftermarket' outer chapter rings, and I suspect that this might be one of those. Hands look like 60s style to me. |
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