personally i would wait for a new batch with updated subdials. the dial print etc is so good that it’s comparable to gen for a fraction
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personally i would wait for a new batch with updated subdials. the dial print etc is so good that it’s comparable to gen for a fraction
Tony Clifton
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I have done it and think it looks awesome. Yes fantasy piece, but who cares. Gen owners put racing dials in their Daytona as well.
I have done it and think it looks awesome. Yes fantasy piece, but who cares. Gen owners put racing dials in their Daytona as well.
Yep. Looks beautiful.
The guy also asked the question in a seperate thread and i answered there:
A gen owner on Rolex Forums out a racing dial in his 500, people were like ugh, blasphemy and all ugly words. His answer: you don't have to like it, it's mine and i do whatever the hell I want with it.
It also adds to the "Gen-ness" in my opinion
I have done it and think it looks awesome. Yes fantasy piece, but who cares. Gen owners put racing dials in their Daytona as well.
I think the same way bro
well done…. Beautiful…
One last question: I have ARF V2 white dial and planning to offload it and buy working chrono.
I'm on fence to buy Clean Daytona coz of the blue hues. Still confused about BTF vs CF. I asked my TD and he said both are equal and similar and none is better than other.
Final suggestions please.
I'm on fence to buy Clean Daytona coz of the blue hues. Still confused about BTF vs CF. I asked my TD and he said both are equal and similar and none is better than other.
Final suggestions please.
Is there any post to refer both their flaws? This is too huge thread to start reading.
I have done it and think it looks awesome. Yes fantasy piece, but who cares. Gen owners put racing dials in their Daytona as well.
That looks pretty nice actually
didn’t know gen owners swapped gen dials. I thought it was just us lunatics.
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Yes, idk bro but im still hoping that those cf dials will turn warmer overtime on the sun, im catching the sun every day with it hehe
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I would not be surprised if it did bro. Uncoated sapphire (which I assume is what we are dealing with here) does allow most UV light to pass through...which is the wavelength that does the most damage (ie turns things yellow). I suspect if you purposely left your watch in the blazing sun for 10+ hours a day, everyday, you would see a difference in about a month. That would be the equivalent amount of sunlight a typical watch would be exposed to over 3+ years (assuming most watches, on average, only get ~15 minutes of direct sunlight a day).
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Understand,
me, as long as im outside im putting it dial to sun directly, hopefully will turn just a hair warmer and will be insane dial
Ylijumala
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A UV lamp (or laser) could be used for this purpose as well. Would shorten the exposure time quite a lot, but with laser one would need to be careful so as to not overdo the effect.
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Nice one bro, really i believe if this is possible the clean dial will be extremly good, love the crispness od the text, lume texture like crystals,
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I actually happen to have a 2W near-UV laser (which btw charges up the lume to extreme brightness with just a sub-second exposure), but I don't have a diffusor lens suitable for spreading the beam, or I just might try this myself. I would suggest the UV lamp route, sufficiently strong lasers are hard to come by and tend to run quite hot, needing good cooling.