Do you have a link to the VRF thread?

: Certainly not by the 60s and 70s heyday. Remember they used a dial
: supplier (usually Singer in that period) and all they did was
: make dials for customers like Heuer and Rolex. Increasing
: automation was the order of the day. In the same link on VRF was
: a link to a company supplying the machinery to the likes of
: Singer and that showed a machine from the 50s that held two dial
: blanks, the operator rotating it 180 degrees after aligning and
: printing the first.

: So it seems there was still quite some manual involvement in the
: 50s, but the link didn't really state whether that was the scale
: of instrument they were supplying to the big dial making
: companies or for smaller ateliers.

: But I guess the process is I guess much the same, just on a larger
: scale with more automation. Something I wouldn't mind finding
: out more about, dial production is interesting!