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Question about 5065 dials....
I'm considering 5065A (actual watch shown in first 2 images).
I understand that these watches were introduced in 1998 and I believe that the transition to Luminova was around 1999/2000. Interestingly, this watch was made in 2000 but it is showing lovely aging hour markers, indicating that it's still most likely a trituim dial. While I'm a big fan of Luminoma hands and dials, I also like the charm of nicely aged tritium dials across many brands.
What I find interesting, is that while the hour markers are getting beige the hands are brighter. Furthermore, I researched images of other 5065 all over the Internet and I found it very interesting is that I have not seen one single watch, where the hands would perfectly match the aging non-luminova dials.
I own several vintage Rolex models and hands and dials match pretty evenly.
Are brighter hands on older 5065s pretty much the norm?
Question about 5065 dials....
Noticed the same in several videos....
It can well be that hands have been done with Luminova earlier… or in other words, older still available dials where used with newer sets of hands…
I have noticed the same
Mine is also a luminova dial, and there is still a slight difference between the color of the indexes and hands
So cool an Aquanaut. Superb. 🙂
Great question.....I wondered myself.
As an art director, if I had submitted the 'off-angle' concept to my boss...
