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Re: Carrera 45 Dato - opinions please

Yep, looks pretty good to me too Wynonie. The hands look like they might be original, with an hilarious attempt at reluming the relatively small lume windows on these by just painting lume all over the end of the hands. You, or your watchmaker, might be able to strip that off and leave it looking more original. Second hand and chrono needle look correct. The movement is fine. The dial itself has been potentially been relumed some time ago but I'm leaning more towards the original lume having spread a bit with time (usually through absorbing small amounts of moisture) as the dots do look to be in the right places. The tritium marking is not unusual for these.

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