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This Loose Dial -- Looks Original to Me
In Response To: Could the loose / patinated dial seen first have been.... ()

To me, this latest loose dial appears to be original.

While there has been some chatter about the possibility of someone making a batch of the counterfeit IMS dials, there is no reason to think that this dial is part of any such an effort.

We have not seen the back of this one . . . only this one photo.

Jeff

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: ...a master / 'pattern' for a batch of reproduction dials?

: What does the reverse of the latest dial look like? Aged metal? Can
: the lume be tested for original tritium with h3 vs tinted
: superluminova?

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