JamesJackson Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 Is the luminous material on the MBK submariner 1680 real lume or is it just white paint? Any help would be great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cats Posted June 23, 2009 Report Share Posted June 23, 2009 JJ It is paint with only a little bit of lume. But as a vintage dial shoud be , no lume left after so many years. Carpe Diem Cats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesJackson Posted June 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2009 Thanks for the info, can anyone post and good dial pic of a stock MBK submariner 1680 to give and example of what your talking about? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cats Posted June 23, 2009 Report Share Posted June 23, 2009 This is an example of the latest MBW ( at least it was sold to me as a MBW ). Chris claims to deliver the real/true MBW but i never bougth oen from him so i can't tell you for shure. The dial now a days isn't the good old quality singer dial anymore. This RED dial is way off and it screams FAKE. Take a close look at the minute markers on the dial they almost disappear and are hardly visable. As i said the RED dial is of a very poor quality. Carpe Diem Cats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesJackson Posted June 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2009 Thanks for the great pics, so of the two mbk 1680 subs would you suggest the "white" sub over the "red"? and that dial does have "some" glow from the lume....thanks very much agian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alligoat Posted June 23, 2009 Report Share Posted June 23, 2009 White is definitely the better choice if you're getting an MBW/K dial. It's a better looking dial. The red has more issues like size of printing- but then again, whose gonna know - a WIS! And how many WIS have you ever run into? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoJo35 Posted June 24, 2009 Report Share Posted June 24, 2009 And how many WIS have you ever run into? Lots of 'em.... Stephane is one actually Back on subject, I agree that the new "red 1680" MBW dial stinks, and has definitely gone in reverse as far a quality is concerned. I'm almost sad that I sold all of my old "red" MBW's! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
By-Tor Posted June 24, 2009 Report Share Posted June 24, 2009 Red dial has always been very easy to call out on the MBW... new and old. The red SUBMARINER font is totally off. I wrote this back in 2005 and the information is still valid. Now, keeping today's rep standards in mind, I wouldn't give that watch very good review. The old red 1680 MBW is very inaccurate rep without tons of expensive mods... and even after theose mods the dial just plain sucks. I've seen $90 reps that are more faithful to the gen. The white one is a great "base watch" though... providing you actually do those (expensive) modifications. The case construction on the old MBW watches is second to none... but then again the crown guards, pearl and default crown are all terrible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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