Advice for Vintagizing a dial and hands

[cacti]

Hello watch peeps, I'm going to build my first watch, a Tudor Submariner 7928 Raffles build, ( thanks to excellent advice from @dpd3672 ).

I've looked a lot of old threads on RWI about ways to age dials and hands, I'm curious if anyone has a preferred method that they thought worked well.

Oven?
Coffee?
Tea?
Some kind of varnish?

At the moment, I think I'm going to try the coffee method.

Appreciate any advice.

 

[dpd3672]

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It's a long thread, and growing every day, but if you place your order with Raffles and knock out 10 or so pages a day, you'll be caught up when your watch arrives.

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[rhythmism]

try this :https://forum.replica-watch.info/threads/the-1016-the-under-appreciated-thread.8523377/, also there are a couple of youtube videos if you want to check those out. what works for me is some sort of paint remover distilled to 99%, then uv exposure for a week does the trick.

 

[p0pperini]

uv exposure for a week does the trick

Yeah, agreed - I always find that dial ageing works better when I have a suntan.

 

[Karbon74]

try this :https://forum.replica-watch.info/threads/the-1016-the-under-appreciated-thread.8523377/, also there are a couple of youtube videos if you want to check those out. what works for me is some sort of paint remover distilled to 99%, then uv exposure for a week does the trick.

oh, never tried that one
any pics of results?