Watch Buying Guide: All About Dials
This buying guide instalment highlights the points to consider when buying decorated watch dials.
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Image: A. Lange & Söhne
Watch dials come in a dizzying array of colours, materials, and decorative flourishes. Though they are a few micrometres thin (roughly between 0.4mm to 0.8mm), dials are essentially the face of the watch (that is why the layman often regards them as watch faces) and invariably, brands.
Since dials are one of the most looked-at components of a timepiece, some manufactures go the extra mile to decorate them ? this is not always an obvious thing to do because some types of craftsmanship carry a hefty price tag. On the other hand, some brands strip away the dial entirely, often paradoxically increasing the price, but that is another story.
Having already covered dress watches, chronographs, calendars and dual-time complications in this fitfully recurring buying guide, we are taking a look at decorated dials in this instalment. From techniques to materials, hand- versus machine-made and everything in between, decorated dials are plentiful but not always obvious, so buying one can be quite challenging if you do not know where to start. Hopefully, this buying guide will help streamline your thought and decision-making process for your next purchase.
Materials
Narrowing down decorated dials based on their material is perhaps one of the easiest ways to filter a purchas...
The post Watch Buying Guide: All About Dials appeared first on LUXUO.
Image: A. Lange & Söhne
Watch dials come in a dizzying array of colours, materials, and decorative flourishes. Though they are a few micrometres thin (roughly between 0.4mm to 0.8mm), dials are essentially the face of the watch (that is why the layman often regards them as watch faces) and invariably, brands.
Since dials are one of the most looked-at components of a timepiece, some manufactures go the extra mile to decorate them ? this is not always an obvious thing to do because some types of craftsmanship carry a hefty price tag. On the other hand, some brands strip away the dial entirely, often paradoxically increasing the price, but that is another story.
Having already covered dress watches, chronographs, calendars and dual-time complications in this fitfully recurring buying guide, we are taking a look at decorated dials in this instalment. From techniques to materials, hand- versus machine-made and everything in between, decorated dials are plentiful but not always obvious, so buying one can be quite challenging if you do not know where to start. Hopefully, this buying guide will help streamline your thought and decision-making process for your next purchase.
Materials
Narrowing down decorated dials based on their material is perhaps one of the easiest ways to filter a purchas...
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