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It was my first thought, too.
Hi.
It was my first thought to leave the patina the way it was, but after inpecting the dial, there were areas that the former owner had tried to clean but failed. There were lints sticked to the dial everywhere and that patina was not even at all.
Cleaning a dial.
Hi Friends. Last week, I bought a GL stepped dial coming with a chronometre 505 movement.and original hands. Looks like it's gold case was melted long time ago and this unit is like a hermit crab with no shell. Here it was You can see it's a 18K dial cove...
very nice
but, and perhaps this is a testament to your lovely photography, the 'before' picture seems have a rather pleasant patina! but i really can't argue with the cased up picture. it is a gorgeous watch.
It was my first thought, too.
Hi. It was my first thought to leave the patina the way it was, but after inpecting the dial, there were areas that the former owner had tried to clean but failed. There were lints sticked to the dial everywhere and that patina was not even at all....
ahh,
i see what you're talking about. a fine decision then. and again, a lovely watch.
It will look like this.
Hi Kyle, It will look like this. and you already know it's my 2887. Best...
It is like magic!
Hoi, you are really brave - what you dare! It also could have gone south... Would you please PM me the secret of your success - I think I have also some "candidates" kind regards erich
Hoi, you never cease to amaze me
Well done for having the courage to tackle it. What a beauty!! Cheers Andrew
Can you share some of the techniques you used...
..to clean the dial? This was such a good job you did. Is it possible to put a new coating down or would that have needed to have been done before the markers or printing were applied? I seem to recall that the coating is done before printing. If you don'...
Ok, will tell you ;)
Well, the magic stuff I used was .....Windex.....and it cleaned away only the old, dirty coating but left the printings intact. I used tiny toothpicks and wrapped a very small amount of cotton (from Q tips) around the tip of it. Do not soak it too wet, ju...
One of mine
Here is one of mine that I subjected to alternative cleaning process. Before After...
Thanks for the tips!
Want to try this on a couple old dials I have. Nothing to lose to try.