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I guess it will remain a mystery then, til the next time it turns up.

Engrave in. Carve away. Emboss. Impress. Strike. Screws. Posts. Weld through hole. Epoxy through hole. Surface weld. Surface epoxy.

1967 anything. The best year for everything. Exclusions being first year or last year or any year ending in 3, 5, or 7 if not produced in 1967.

Be vewwy vewwy quiet... I'm hunting fwoggies.

From what I recall these were the original batch Vargas had made and sent out to test the waters (and from which he held back 3 for himself).

I believe you're right, the 195FT bezel is unique to the BL. Here's another that lives among us in these hallowed halls of RWG, also with the 195FT bezel.

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The eBay junker has the same bezel as Nuqi's gem...

Now were these BL's that were made up later by Vargas or were these some of the originals? Just as and aside, Vargas and I didn't get along' we had a couple of big disagreements back when he was the "so called" US Representative for Doxa. He didn't last very long as he managed to [censored] off almost everyone he dealt with. Also he was scamming Doxa.

All that aside, I thought I posted something yesterday on this thread, but I must have hit the wrong button. It was essentially about bezels and the observation that the bezels that are on nanug's BL and the EBay watch are the same, and don't appear on any other models. When I get homeI'll look and see if the post auto saved.

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It was relisted... Is it still up for $200.00?

Just buy it already Nuqi. You know you want to, and you won't lose on it, no matter. At the very least you'll have spare parts, and we'll have a more definitive answer.

Old, Base, Swiss.

For large volume, good quality text and graphic images in the early 50s, the newest best process was phototypesetting, images and text of the same color were arranged and photographed to produce an image carrier for each color. Pretty much the same as color ads in magazines until the newer computer processes took over in the 90s... The only better printing would be gravure (intaglio) which produces raised ink like you would find on invitations, business cards, and money.

The photomechanical processes produce 'dots' because the plates have various sized holes that carry the ink, but the dots are not in line like a dot matrix printer, the youngster writing that one story I glanced at that you posted is an idiot. The magazine 'print' of the painting is a multi-screen photomechanical process, which is exactly what I would expect to see on old docs with graphics printed in the thousands of copies. If THAT old document were scanned and then printed with a modern inkjet process, the color dots would be run together more by the scanning and then pixelated by the printing process, and would show distinct lines and square edges that your document doesn't display.

That is not dot matrix. That is old school multi-screen printing.

Pcardoza, that sounds mostly like old lube and migration.

Quit beating on your watch.

Netniet, basically yes.

The eBay junker has the same bezel as Nuqi's gem...

Landeron 48. 58 if it's a calendar.

Dial:

Giant steps are what we take...

Walking on the moon.

I hope my leg don't break...

Walking on the moon.

Ice

Or Doxa spread them out evenly to dealers near the coasts to maximize exposure with their minimum investment, and this is number 15.

Really none to Florida?

None to VA/NC tidewaters and Navy HQ country?

I finally saw 300, and 300: Rise of an Empire.

I give them both a 5/10.

Nuqi, look at it from a different angle. You know more about the extant examples of this watch than anyone else... how many do you know of originating on the mid east coast? Any yet? If a couple dozen watches were sent out as samples, does this one popping up where it is make sense by filling a hole, or is it creating a cluster?

If the hairspring is bunched up there are two possibilities, magnetized and migrated oil on hairspring.

Looks expensive.

The crap lume, hand change and worn logo together look like water damaged and amateur repaired to me.

I bet if he did several of them in a grid, a la Andy Warhol, some combined with certain drink logos overlapped like a ghostly bottle cap, others with certain cartoon and Muppet images overlayed, he'd sell even more...

We're a bunch of basically honest guys here.

Still waiting for my fee BTW...

I am going to say the genius watchsmith that ruined the hands and had to change them out also polished the chicken scratch off. Apart from the dirt, the lugs look like a couple layers are missing, with inconsistent polishing.

So, maybe it is an original with an unfortunate history.

Worth a $200 gamble on the cc through ppal in the bay, to ensure you get your money back if it's a sticker. It is relisted. I would if I were in the position to.