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What are these suckers worth? Someone ofdered me one today in a trade.

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I would not touch a dial like that. There is already degrading of the original lacquer. Thats real aging and history, not dirt and stains by the looks of it.

I love patina, but I hate dirt and stains. I cannot remove actual dial patina. Only dirt and stains stuck on top of the original lacquer.

Thanks

Thank you

I'll try on the next one. I only do it on severely dirty dials. I only have an old Samsung phone so I'll give it my best shot.

Thanks for the kind words, much appreciated.

Made me giggle, love it.

Where are you located? I sent you a private message 👌

Thats fair. I just couldn't live with the oil stains and the bad redial. Whoever had it before used a pen or paint of some sort to trace over all of the optional Omega dial printing. I just couldn't stand looking at it and wanted it back to original Omega printing 🤣

Thanks, much appreciated

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I would leave it, i destroyed 50+ junk dials before I ever tried a nice one. Its already gorgeous.

According to him people prefer damaged, dirty repainted dials. I've not heard that before but to each thier own 🤣

Extremely slow, extremely delicate.

Start with 1l warm water with 1-2 drops dish soap and just pat it with a magic eraser that is barely moist. This step can take hours and hours to remove built up grease, oil, nicotine stains etc.

Next a soft bristled toothbrush that I have heat treated so the bristles are even softer. Dip this in Light Distillate Hydrotreated Naphtha and flick off 90% of it and ever so gently brush over the dial. Just enough that the bristles barely even touch it.

Used to take me 4+ hours to achieve this sort of clean but I have done enough now I have it down to about 2.5 hours per dial.

Bonus is I haven't destroyed a dial in months 🤣🤣

🤣🤣🤣 fair enough but I just couldn't stand the oil stains and the horrible repaint. Luckily the original prints were still pristine underneath.

No idea why it was painted over, in my eyes I saved its life 🤣

Extremely slow, extremely delicate.

Start with 1l warm water with 1-2 drops dish soap and just pat it with a magic eraser that is barely moist. This step can take hours and hours to remove built up grease, oil, nicotine stains etc.

Next a soft bristled toothbrush that I have heat treated so the bristles are even softer. Dip this in Light Distillate Hydrotreated Naphtha and flick off 90% of it and ever so gently brush over the dial. Just enough that the bristles barely even touch it.

Used to take me 4+ hours to achieve this sort of clean but I have done enough now I have it down to about 2.5 hours per dial.

Bonus is I haven't destroyed a dial in months 🤣🤣

I wish this was the case, just a few hundred hours of testing and practice 🤣

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I did in the early days, its a good way to easily remove all of your applied indicies and logos, they just vibrate right off 🤣 Never again....

Someone had either drawn or painted over the original for some reason, maybe the staining made it harder to read 🤷‍♂️ I'm so glad it all came off the expose the original printing though. It could easily have been a disaster.

Here's another I did that was dark brown and near illegible when I got it. Still has patina, just no gunk.

https://preview.redd.it/uyknmdbhtsxh1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c381baae7ad5af1e5944350514a894a1cd143533

I love patina, I just don't like dirt and damage. I always try to get rid of any dirt, oil etc.