What time is it? Watches and horology

I'd probably just get a San Martin copy, I mean homaaaage...

Good looking (and pretty accurate) recreation of the first Seiko 5 sports model:

https://www.seikowatches.com/global-en/products/5sports/special/recreation/index

Under 40mm too, nice.

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Absolutely love that turquoise and pink watch face further up in this thread. However, it looks like the dial is simply an inkjet print on a brushed steel surface?
Print technology has come a long way in recent decades, and better yet that dome may have some UV proofing, but from my time in the art world I feel fairly certain that this dial will eventually fade into nothingness.

I can't claim any knowledge of how light-fast the Paulin dial is specifically, but the dial iself is anodised and dyed aluminium. The printing is pad printing, so it's a little different to screen printing and very different to inkjet - the ink is much thicker and more opaque, and you can use two-part inks which cure very hard. Light fastness of screen prints has historically been very good, the issue is often more to do with the yellowing of the paper, but more modern water-based inks are less durable. I'm not an expert on how the pad printing inks compare in that regard, but given that you have pad printed dials that still have bright red and blue text that are >70 years old I wouldn't be surprised if the colour fastness of the printing is very good.

Digital/inkjet printing is basically a no-go for watch dials (above Swatch level at least) - you can't print acceptably sharp lines and text at the sizes involved.

Ah, anodised? No worries then.

I am a screen printer by trade and can confirm the resilience of the inks used. I use solvent based enamel inks that are UV resistant and should outlast the materials they are printed on, especially paper.

I have anodised aluminium screen printed business cards and the aluminium scratches more than the printed ink.

I believe pad printing uses similar inks and techniques to screen printing, only using an engraved plate to retain the ink rather than pushing it through the mesh.

You can do DIY pad printing onto drinking glasses and the like using screens and balloons but the accuracy isn’t there really.

Screen printing is often used for the Lume as you can create super high build screens that deposit a greater volume of particle and hence give a great brightness of lume.

That paulin dial has quite a high build on the pink and could be screen printed.

You can see the ink build up in this photo of my business card, and the how the mesh effects the fine line.

These numbers are about 10pt so not the best for the super fine work but great for some areas

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gutted I missed the Paulin! Enjoy @anidel

Nice, now let's see Paul Allen's card.

The Paulin dial is definitely pad printed, I know from their blog about it. It’s normal with pad printing dials that you do multiple applications to build up the thickness of the print.

Also pad printing ink is quite a lot thicker / denser than screen printing ink - it needs to be quite sticky to pull away from the silicone pad.

@starfish&coffee the colour is not from the anodising. It’s anodised silver and then dyed blue by hand. As I said, I don’t know how colour fast it is.

I know those dials are sent to am individual artist for the anodisation (?) and then printed with the in house custom made Wim font. Then assembled by anOrdain

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I am! Really loving it

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Just arrived. I’d like to change the strap maybe canvas any recommendations

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Omega boutique let me try on a couple of solid gold Speedmasters, lol.

The gold panda dial is actually pretty great. I’d take that on the bracelet.

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...this time next year...

Uffffffffffffff. The green dial model is soooooooo good.

If only

It’s not the most legible Speedmaster you’ve ever seen but it is pretty delicious.

Just picked up a 5000- 1jf g shock . Slightly smarter version of maybe my favourite watch , the 5600.
This new one is a Japan import with nicer case and strap.
Loving it ..

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Is this the one with the stainless back?

Have we done Omega spending £3m on a fake watch?

https://www.watchpro.com/omega-and-phillips-embroiled-in-3-million-super-fake-watch-auction/

Picked one of these up the other day for work duty!

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Everyone’s sooooo surprised aren’t they. Phillips, Bacs, everyone was in on it for sure. And Omega trying to make out they had no idea their extract process was open to that kind of abuse. So much BS.

It has a screw back like the original, yeah. It’s a great version. I think they released a small run of them in the USA earlier this year.