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Welcome aboard Dennis!
Hairlines usually show up pretty well in digital photos if you take off the bezel. They can be hard to see under a thick glass crystal.
To find hairlines I put on my spectacle loupe and examine the dial under strong light. When you look at the reflections, you can spot all the hairlines easily, even those that haven't broken out on the surface of the dial yet.
Best Regards,
Ed
Posts: 6696 | Location: Southwestern Pennsylvania, USA | Registered: April 19, 2004
Thank you for the welcome! That makes sense regarding a digital photo without the bezel. I've uploaded one. I can also upload a higher definition pic to a website if that helps so please let me know...but in the meantime - what do you think? Am I correct on denoting using 27, 28, 29 with reference to the minutes? But what did this individual mean when they said m9n? I'm assuming it's a fractional location? Thanks again - Dennis
Posts: 7 | Location: Frisco, Texas in the USA | Registered: February 06, 2012
Welcome Dennis, I enlarged the last picture you posted and it looks like there might be the start of a hairline at the 38 to 39 minute mark along the outside of the dial. I think the person meant the 39 minute mark as that looks like the only line i can see anywhere on the dial.
Posts: 1499 | Location: Rancho Cucamonga, California USA | Registered: December 20, 2006
Hi Robert - yep, that's the one I see also. Is the correct way to denote it as "from center hole curved down to the 10 second mark" or do you say "from center hole to the sub-dail at 21 to 27" or does it make any difference how you denote it so long as you do? I'm trying to figure out what is the standard/correct way to say there's a hairline crack here and over here and so forth.
Posts: 7 | Location: Frisco, Texas in the USA | Registered: February 06, 2012
The only negatives on that dial that I can see are the hairline issues at 38 minutes and below the center as mentioned previously. The chip at the lever it worth noting of course. This one looks good, we need to keep our objectivity when evaluating a something like one hundred ten year old porcelain-enamel dial.
If you want to get picky only the hour hand looks like a Hamilton, the other two are after-market. Things like that stand out to me. Speaking of "picky" in evaluation, it always helps to have the movement number so we can place it properly in relation to original watches. That's me getting picky!
Seeing the lever at 11 minutes tells me this is an 18-size movement.
Lindell
Posts: 10553 | Location: Northeastern Ohio in the USA | Registered: November 19, 2002
Thanks everyone for the feedback!! Mike, now that you say it's probably a typo that would make sense! I guess the 9 is directly above the letter i on a keyboard.
Posts: 7 | Location: Frisco, Texas in the USA | Registered: February 06, 2012
are the hairline issues at 38 minutes and below the center as mentioned previously. The chip at the lever it worth noting of course. This one looks good, we need to keep our objectivity when evaluating a something like one hundred ten year old porcelain-enamel dial. 
only the hour hand looks like a Hamilton, the other two are after-market. Things like that stand out to me. Speaking of "picky" in evaluation, 
it always helps to have the movement number so we can place it properly in relation to original watches. That's me 
getting picky! 
