Not really !!!
One is the untouched factory version and the other is relumed and have AR´d cyclop by me.
Yes, I could manage it - a little fix here and a little fix there...
Your opinion please !
And here is the comparing
Thanks for looking
I was a little busy these days... luming marathon with a few special colors (vintage, orange, brown, black)!
General view
Hands
AP 15300
AP Boutique
AP black themes
PAM 359M with brown color
AP Volcano
AP Tour
IWC 3717
Heritage with flat DOTS
Lume 359M
Lume 3717
Lume Volcano
Heritage
AP Tour and black themes
AP Silver Themes
Thanks for looking.
Thanks Cats. I am glad that you are happy with your GMT
No, it is a very special polish that reduce scratches to nanoscale.
With warm water and my special crystal cleaner.
Yesterday I received a gen Rolex Tritium dial and hands from a nice member.
My job: reluming with Superluminova C1 Grade A
The tritium and the dial was not in good conditions and I decided to polish it after removing the Indezes.
Please see the pictures below.
Here the “lume” before. You can see the lume is weak and you see black fluff on the Indezes.
They are from the shipping package and I think the scratches are also from shipping sponge.
Here my polishing compound.
On the next picture you can see that you can not compare the old gen Indezes with the fake Indezes.
The gens are without base plate and have 2 feets.
To relume without base plate is very challenging…
The result:
You can still see a few light scratches but I don’t wanted to polish more.
After color paint comes metal…
Thanks for your interest.
A member sent me his AP Orchard Road for a little beautification.
Today I finished it.
The work I have done:
Double AR Reluming dial and hands AR´d cyclop Screws polished
It is hard to photograph the new cyclop but it looks good in natural.
Here are a few pictures:
The new Cyclops
The result
The lume isn´t blue. It is Superluminova C1 green.
The watch before
Thanks for looking
Many thanks for your opinion.
I decided to go with option 2 and removed the old "lume" paste because it doesn´t shine.
After test with a few different lume I decide to mix my own lume and varnish.
What do you think about the result?