Reply With QuoteI hope so, because the dial detail under the indices is difficult to see in a shop. It appears to be both fine and unusual.Originally Posted by Coot
It's the same watch in both photo's, hopefully showing the full scope of sparkle, subtle to full on!
I hope so, because the dial detail under the indices is difficult to see in a shop. It appears to be both fine and unusual.
Christopher Ward 2009 Forum LE
Love that Constellation.
Came acrossmarket_image.2422233.jpg this the other day. I love the fact the part of this watch has spent millions of years travelling through space. Very apt for a moon watch!
Nudge, nudge ...
Lovely ..... watch porn
Heres a cheap and cheerful Amphibian, the dial on this one gives me more pleasure than some watches in the collection that cost 100 times more.
Who said Russian watches are ugly?
Last edited by Meinessex; 16th April 2014 at 19:18.
That's lovely! Is that dial cracked with age or is it made of some sort of stone? I really can't tell.
Its paint thats cracked with age.
Some watches age more gracefully than others, a lot of vintage Russians don't get much of a good rep on the forums, mainly because their chrome plated bezels look like crap after a year or two. But their dials on the other hand age beautifully, all you gotta do is switch out the bezel and you have a stunner!
If that was a Rolex it would be worth a fortune. ;-)
Indeed. It's very handy that Vostok bezels are easy to replace.
Some various ones from my ipad from various forums , because who doesn't like some watch porn?
That looks really cool! Almost like it's meant to look that way.
^^^^^ Brilliant^^^^^
This works for me ...
I examined the black version of that watch close-up recently - the dial really is very nicely done.
Sinn looks crisp
Wow! Drooltastic.
The closer you look, the more you see.
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Posted this image of my Bell-Matic (by Cannop) on a Seiko thread and then realised it'll serve quite well here, too:
One of my ex’s:
But sometimes less is more:
(That’s not the re-issue)
Last edited by Si; 22nd April 2014 at 22:41.
Cheers,
Neil.
The Omega 'wavy dial' is a classic
Breitling Blackbird
Nomos Weltzeit
How the dickens did you manage to get that close on a micro shot ? Thats just superbThe Omega 'wavy dial' is a classic
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Last edited by Marc; 23rd April 2014 at 21:29.
Well, I'd like to claim it was skill but I was looking to buy a new microscope (vision system, these days) so you are looking at what about £30,000 of kit can do. Nikon or Zeiss from memory, Leica was too expensive to even call in.How the dickens did you manage to get that close on a micro shot ? Thats just superb
I wanted to check what the camera and image processing were like, my watch was to hand so I passed it over. Salesman thought I was joking but under high magnification, it is a pleasingly complex surface to examine.
Wish we had this kit at my current workplace, very useful.
Some very expensive cameras being used for some of these macro close up shots!!!
£30,000 Wow. I was hoping you did it with a Nikon 3000 + a half decent add on lens
Thats my plans scuppered then
My RLT 39 taken with a cheap Fujifilm camera.
Last edited by alan2273; 23rd April 2014 at 22:29. Reason: spelling
Not necessarily.
My pic was taken with a 5.1 mega pixel compact and I'm a rubbish photographer.
Cheers,
Neil.
Couple from Tudor Heritage
Last edited by melhick; 24th April 2014 at 09:27.
Nice watch Chris ;-)It's the same watch in both photo's, hopefully showing the full scope of sparkle, subtle to full on!
I love stardusts, I have 6 in various guises now! Oh dear, the gold dial/ gold hands is by far (IMHO) the nicest execution, they looks absolutely amazing, it's impossible to catch the true detail of the sparkle
Cheers Tom
Heres another Omega, not a stardust, but more of a 'gold dust'.
Last edited by Meinessex; 24th April 2014 at 18:48.
This isn't my pic, sadly. Hope no-one minds :-/
I love the dials on these. And I loved them even more when I discovered how they are engraved, in a circular fashion using a machine with a large physical template and a pantograph arrangement to reduce the scale of movement of the engraving head. Very impressive and very old fashioned (not that there is anything wrong with that at all!). I was even more surprised to find that the dial engraving is outsourced to a specialist.This isn't my pic, sadly. Hope no-one minds :-/
There's a video here...
Last edited by markrlondon; 25th April 2014 at 00:21.
A few oldies from Photobucket
Cheers,
Nigel
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