Showing posts with label Watch dial restoration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Watch dial restoration. Show all posts

Slava dual time zone watch dial

From USA We have received this rare Slava dual timezone watch dials. The original color were blue and the client wanted a fine restore for this special russian dials. Here you are a photo to the dials before the restoration:


The 3 dials have a special color: a deep blue color and the print in white color. We hope that you like the result. Here you are the dilas fine restored by our workshop Danafi from Barcelona.





Rotary Aquaplunge watch dial restoration

Rotary Watches is an award-winning worldwide brand of classic timepieces. The firm was founded in 1895 by Moise Dreyfuss in the Swiss town of La Chaux de Fonds. 

In this sense We are proud  to show you a restauration of a mythical model. The Aquaplunge Rotary watch dial as to original. The dial was in very bad condition and how you can see, the tachymeter scale and the legend Aqauplunge doesn’t show fine. The restoration well done respect all the marks, brands and scales; the background is 2 tones (black and secondary dials white) and the 8 sticks and the Arabic number 6 and 12 with luminescent ink. We wish you like the result.


Client's Country: South Africa

Brand watch: Rotary
Model: Aquaplunge
Work done: Rrefinishing and refurbishing of the dial
Work done by: Specialist Workshop in Watch dial restoration from Barcelona





The next picture, We show the dial before restoration:


Le Coultre Futurematic

The dial of this watch LeCoultre modelo futurematic is very beautiful by its pure line and vanguard  concept. In the 3h position we can see the sub-second dial and the 9h position there is the power reserve indicator with a red segment for the last time reserve (around 9h). 
This dial is done with a toble tone background that give to the dial a subtle finishing and keep the original apperance. This is the dial before do the restoration:




 Here you are the result:




Client's Country: England. 
Brand watch: Le Coultre
Model: Futurematic
Work done: Rrefinishing and refurbishing of the dial

Buser Freres watch dial restoration




Here you are the last restoration done by Danafi, Specialist workshop in watch dial restorations. The restoration done is a Buser Frères dial with 2 tones. It is a beautiful dial because the background dial has the gold tone and silver. The dial has the Arabic numbers and sticks embossed in gold color with 12 luminescent dots. 










Raketa watch dial

We are glad to show you a very special watch dial restoration. This is an Russian dial and our customer wanted to have a very good refurbishment. The mark dial is Raketa and We can show the12 number embossed in red gold.



Here you are some photos the dial finished. In this sense, We can notice there is a little dot between 4 and 5 position. This is a defect dial surface that We cannot fixed. However the result is very good.


Client's Country: United Kingdom 
Brand watch: Raketa

Model: Made in USSR

Date of entry into the workshop: 2/02/2015

Departure Date and delivery: 5/05/2015


Omega Genève watch dial restoration

Sometimes  we receive watch dials that are bad restored. This is the case. Our customer wanted to restore the dial again but respecting the original brands with the same typography. So, We have refurbished the dial with the same brands. However, the dial has a big problem. the sticks are made with plastic and We cannot restore them because They are very poor quality. Here you are the dial before our work. The second picture is the result.




Longines watch dial restoration

We Are glad to show a new restoration done by Danafi, a watch dial restoration workshop from Barcelona, Spain. This dial was in very bad conditions; the mark Longines was rusted and the background lost its original color, it was plated color. The dial has applied figures in gold that have been restored, too. The restoration was finished in two weeks and the result is the next:




Omega wach dail restoration with luminiscent ink

 This is an original vintage Omega dial that needs to be restored. Danafi's workshop (a specialist workshop in restoring watches and, moreover, in watch dial restoration) have done a good restoration respecting the dual tone and the luminescent Arabic indexes. Here you are som pictures showing the result of the restoarion:





  • Restore the dial respecting the background black color, the original brand Omega.
  • Restoration luminiscent (glow) Arabic numbers.
Client's Country: Czech Republic
Brand watch: Omega
Model: Vintage
Date of entry into the workshop: 2012/11/2
Departure Date and delivery: 2013/04/08

International Watch Cº dial restoration

International Watch Co, also known as IWC, is a high-end Swiss watch manufacturer located in Schaffhausen, Switzerland.
IWC Schaffhausen is notable for being the only major Swiss watch factory located in eastern Switzerland, as the majority of the well-known Swiss watch manufacturers are located in western Switzerland. 

In this case, We are glad to show you a beautiful IWC watch and the result done by Danafi for a Romanian client. This is the whole IWC watch:

Danafi has done a restoration of the dial and We think the result is as expected. Here you are some photographs:


 

Client's Country: Romania
Brand watch: International Watch Cº

Breitling chronometer watch dail restoration

A beautiful dial had been restored respecting the background silver color with 2 tones, the original Breitling brand, the scale Base (or Tachometer)  in blue color and  the scale Telemetre in red color.

Here you are the dial before the restoration:


The pictures after the restoration:




Client's Country: Montgomery, AL, USA
Brand watch: Breitling
Model: Chronometer

Longines watch dial restoration

Longines watch dial restored by another restorer.
Sometimes We receive a work done by another restorer and sometimes the work is not very good. The original dial had sticks with low relief and the owner watch was very displeased with the result. He contacted with us and We looked for another Longines dial because the owner's original dial was "dead".
We were lucky to find another similar dial, but in bad condition. The solution was restore the dial and this is the result:
Longines watch dial restored by Danafi.

Detail of the legend Swiss Made at the bottom of the Longines dial.
Finally, the dial was mounted with the hands and machinery. The final result is here:
Longines watch mounted with the dial and hands restored.

Omega Speedmaster watch dial restoration

We have restored a new dial of the legendary brand Omega. The watch is special because the model Speedmaster made a limited series of 1.000 units; the Holy Grail series.
Here you can see some photos of the restoration. We hope that you like it.



The original dial was in this poor state:


At night the sticks will glow:


If you want to see the whole watch pompleted, You can see the Holy Grail Omega Speedmaster restoration