[Video Tutorial] How to Relume your watch dial!

[alvinado]

Hi all!

W@tchlume posted this at RWI so i thought of sharing with you pple here. W@tchlume is a trusted dealer there.

We could have did it with the professional tools but we are going to show you how to use the simplest tools that can be found easily in your household...

Tools used include:

1. A plastic spoon

2. A toothpick

3. A shortened wooden chopstick

4. Watchlume Lume torch

5. Watchlume ultimate green lume powder

6. W@tchlume clear binder

All completed in 5min!!!

Final Results will be shown tmr after watch dial has dried. Stay tuned!

[krpster]

Wow, just like that.

[gtanak]

Most excellent.. What is watchlume powder and binder?? Does he make his own or its actually a known brand like AF?

Can' wait to see the end results. K, lemme look round my kitchen.

1) toothpick - check

2) plastic spoon - check

3) chopstick - check

4) LEd light - check

5) lume powder - coming

6) binder - coming

7) PAM dial - ok who's sending it to me?

[alvinado]

Most excellent.. What is watchlume powder and binder?? Does he make his own or its actually a known brand like AF?

Can' wait to see the end results. K, lemme look round my kitchen.

1) toothpick - check

2) plastic spoon - check

3) chopstick - check

4) LEd light - check

5) lume powder - coming

6) binder - coming

7) PAM dial - ok who's sending it to me?

Ok watch lume is based in Singapore and is a dealer in RWI

THeir section is here

http://www.replica-watch.info/vb/forumdisplay.php/watchlumes-luminous-products-and-accessories-207.html

AF is actually the second grade lume from swiss. Tritec is the number 1 brand. Watchlume's product is designed to match tritec lume.

[alvinado]

FINAL RESULTS!

Daylight Color

Semi Darkness

Night Color

*Please note that the part of the numeral that looks unlumed are not, it is just a misalignment of the dial and the base plate as I have just put them together in a hurry to show the results

Luming of hands is coming up from gareth( watch-lume)

Rolex dials reluming tutorials will be added soon.

[Rolexman]

Nice vid but this is off course not comparable with a proper relume.... A regulal dial needs massive skills as do the hands.

[alvinado]

Nice vid but this is off course not comparable with a proper relume.... A regulal dial needs massive skills as do the hands.

bud hands are not that difficult, video will be posted soon

[gtanak]

Just tried your C1 on the hands of my Sinn U2. After mixing like you suggested, applying the hands was not too hard.. next is the dial! I'll document the rest in the Other Brands section so i avoid double posting. But just 2 pics taken from my iphone here as a bump for the great lume! Thanks!

[gtanak]

Just did a comparison between using Watchlume ultimate green + watchlume binder vs AF-Luminova Green + AF binder.

Conclusions :

Watchlume is significantly brighter compared to AF after exposure to 10 sec of UV and of course both are much brighter compared to rep lume. This is a donor Cali dial and on the left (inclusive of 12 marker) is watchlume and on the right is AF-Lume (inclusive 6 marker) Numerals 8 and 5 are intentionally left untouched (ie rep lume) for a comparison. Well, with my iphone the results are not SO obvious, but they are. Well done Watchlume!

In Daylight after lume

PS: Thanks for the cali dial Dani

[SMIDSY]

quick and stupid question..... how do you apply the lume EVENLY so it doesn't look bulgy, lumpy/rough? The reps have it applied evenly (though with crap quality) but the relumes all look.... lumpy?

[FxrAndy]

use the thinner