: That is interesting. The dial sold on ebay for quite a tidy sum ...

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: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Universal-Geneve-Space-Compax-chronograph-valjoux-72-watch-dial-only-/181261664763?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEDWX%3AIT&nma=true&si=G910GziUIsKSAIQpj58rSTbVy3w%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

The interesting and nice thing about this dial and this eBay listing is that it was honest. The seller plainly states that it is a reprint. The sad thing about this, perhaps not in specific but in general is that this dial or others like it can be used by somebody else to make an original but used watch into a good looking (at least at first or uneducated glance) frankenwatch. Then next person in the chain may not be as honest.

I don't want to be a whiner. There is nothing to be done about this. This is going to happen no matter how much I might whine.

JohnCote