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Dials: Yuki vs Raffles

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I'm looking to buy a 94010 blue snowflake dial and haven't received responses from MQ or Ruby yet. Raffles has them available for a very low price on his website, Yuki for a bit more. These dials have no applied indices or anything like that to be concerned with. How is the quality of Raffles vs Yuki for a simple printed dial? Do both have crisp, quality print? Is Yuki (or MQ for that matter) worth the extra money for a simple printed dial? I'm ok with spending more money to get the best quality, but I just want to ensure that there actually is more quality for more money. It's difficult to tell this just from looking at the pics on the respective websites. Thanks in advance! That said, if anyone is selling a high quality blue snowflake dial, PM me!
 
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After analyzing them, I'm not crazy about Yuki or Raffles. It seems they each have errors. Phong sent me a pic of his dial, but the print looked blurry, so that's a no-go. Hopefully I'll get a good response from Ruby and/or MQ.
 
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It seems that print quality on the VN snowflake dials varies a lot, and I'm almost certain a few of the VN suppliers pull from the same source. I've noticed subpar snowflake dials from a few VN sellers around the same time frame.

I was also looking for a snowflake dial not long ago and Rubys seem to have subpar text IMO. Im not sure how to best describe it but for lack of better terminology a lot of the text just looks kind of fat and undefined. There was a VN Ebay seller (forgot the account name, but I'm sure you can find it here in the vintage section) that had snowflake Tudor dials and quite a few users here have posted their builds with them, they looked fantastic. Unfortunately when I checked his then current ebay listing for the dials the printing looked very similar to Rubys, with thick undefined lettering, nothing like the pictures some folks have uploaded here of their older examples that had very nice, well defined lettering/fonts. I believe I also saw a user here post in hand photos of one of the more recent dials from this seller but I cant find the thread ATM.


Now it looks like Phongs also have similar issues around the same timeframe? Do you mind sharing the picture you received?


Not sure how MQ compares as I dont think I've seen a single Tudor dial of his.

I'm far from picky but it really seems like theres a dry spell for quality snowflake dials right now hahaha.
 
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Just got a blue dial and hands from yuki and it’s disappointing
Lume color is bad ,lettering is to bold and spacing between the lines is wrong
Plus the blue color is not as deep as I expected
 
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Isarch said:
Just got a blue dial and hands from yuki and it’s disappointing
Lume color is bad ,lettering is to bold and spacing between the lines is wrong
Plus the blue color is not as deep as I expected
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I've got a dial from Helenarou that was custom printed and aged for sale right now. It's really nice, I just ended up not needing it for my project.
 
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bigtiddygothgf said:
It seems that print quality on the VN snowflake dials varies a lot, and I'm almost certain a few of the VN suppliers pull from the same source. I've noticed subpar snowflake dials from a few VN sellers around the same time frame.

I was also looking for a snowflake dial not long ago and Rubys seem to have subpar text IMO. Im not sure how to best describe it but for lack of better terminology a lot of the text just looks kind of fat and undefined. There was a VN Ebay seller (forgot the account name, but I'm sure you can find it here in the vintage section) that had snowflake Tudor dials and quite a few users here have posted their builds with them, they looked fantastic. Unfortunately when I checked his then current ebay listing for the dials the printing looked very similar to Rubys, with thick undefined lettering, nothing like the pictures some folks have uploaded here of their older examples that had very nice, well defined lettering/fonts. I believe I also saw a user here post in hand photos of one of the more recent dials from this seller but I cant find the thread ATM.


Now it looks like Phongs also have similar issues around the same timeframe? Do you mind sharing the picture you received?


Not sure how MQ compares as I dont think I've seen a single Tudor dial of his.

I'm far from picky but it really seems like theres a dry spell for quality snowflake dials right now hahaha.
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Does Ruby had some kind of webshop?
 
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