Royal Oak Offshore date wheel fonts

[todaystheday]

is there anyone who does a date wheel with correct font to fit the a7750 sec@12 movements

 

[SpootyPuff]

Subscribed. Curious as well

 

[Inushuk]

good question... +1

 

[QinetiQ]

you might wanna talk to Takashi about this. I don't know of anyone doing it but he's the only one I can think of that CAN do it

 

[Edgematic]

not only the font should be corrected, also the colour, the colour of a gen AP is not clear white like the reps

 

[QinetiQ]

what is it then?

 

[Edgematic]

more off-white

 

[Edgematic]

some other pics: notice the difference between the white numerals and the datewheel color:

 

[QinetiQ]

Yeah I see it now although this is the least of my worries when it comes to APs

 

[Dan_lie]

Are you sure it doesn't just look darker as the gen movement has a really sunken datewheel...

 

[vpx]

It's probably the lighting. Look at the AP caliber 3120 dw... We could correct the perspective using skew in Photoshop and vectorize the numbers to create a rough font.

 

[QinetiQ]

That font looks familiar, I'll try to see what I can find out. I'm almost certain I've seen this font available freely

 

[vpx]

That font looks familiar

It's close to Copperplate Gothic. Perhaps a customized version was used.

 

[beovision]

auctually the font is correct the numbers have theses points on the ends but the background should be off white

 

[vpx]

Edited Copperplate Gothic a little, only character that is grossly wrong now is the 2.

EDIT: Adding the perspective corrected datewheel:

EDIT 2: Redoing the font using the "lite" version of Copperplate Gothic.
EDIT 3: Redid it. Much better!

 

[QinetiQ]

That's it! Good job mate! It only needs to be a teeeeny weeny bolder and we're good to go

 

[Edgematic]

looks good vpx! what we would also need are the smaller numbers for example the 2 of 22, they are pressed together then.

Taka, CHIME IN!

 

[todaystheday]

im in for one of these are they for sec@12 7750

 

[Edgematic]

im in for one of these are they for sec@12 7750

yes

 

[vpx]

what we would also need are the smaller numbers for example the 2 of 22, they are pressed together then.

Photoshop will do this for me: you can change the letter width and kerning of the font in real-time, so I'm not going to change it in the font itself.