caruwe Posted February 25, 2011 Report Share Posted February 25, 2011 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiman12 Posted February 25, 2011 Report Share Posted February 25, 2011 WOW! Great job C! Did you use a micro-polish, like the stuff they use to get fine scratches out of black paint on cars? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rosnik Posted February 25, 2011 Report Share Posted February 25, 2011 Compliments! Great work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dluddy Posted February 25, 2011 Report Share Posted February 25, 2011 nicely done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cats Posted February 26, 2011 Report Share Posted February 26, 2011 Great job Uwe :1a: . Still have to shoot some decent pics of the job you did to my BK GMT II so the RWG community can see another good examples of your skills. Carpe Diem Cats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryaku Posted February 26, 2011 Report Share Posted February 26, 2011 How the hell did you clean the dial of the polishing compound? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caruwe Posted February 26, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2011 Great job Uwe :1a: . Still have to shoot some decent pics of the job you did to my BK GMT II so the RWG community can see another good examples of your skills. Carpe Diem Cats Thanks Cats. I am glad that you are happy with your GMT WOW! Great job C! Did you use a micro-polish, like the stuff they use to get fine scratches out of black paint on cars? No, it is a very special polish that reduce scratches to nanoscale. How the hell did you clean the dial of the polishing compound? With warm water and my special crystal cleaner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryaku Posted February 26, 2011 Report Share Posted February 26, 2011 WOW! I'm sure i would have screwed everything up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pr0digy30 Posted March 19, 2011 Report Share Posted March 19, 2011 Great work... nice touch on using the old crystal as the polish bowl! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tribal Posted September 15, 2011 Report Share Posted September 15, 2011 Great work So Gen indices are also made from white gold, so not really hard material the can be polished easily. Thats also the reason why they don't have a baseplate, too expensive. But to relume with SL on a T< 25 Dial is completely wrong. Anyway result is fantastic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue_sphere Posted October 6, 2011 Report Share Posted October 6, 2011 I was thinking the same thing tribal . Your result looks great though! Are you trying a gen look or going for a conversation starter? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZedWings Posted October 6, 2011 Report Share Posted October 6, 2011 Beautiful work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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