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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISA...AIT&salenotsupported

Here is a dial I haven't seen before. Anybody have comments?
 
Posts: 3112 | Location: Klamath Falls, Oregon in the USA | Registered: October 13, 2007
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Mike,

It's an early "Red Ball" dial normally found on the lower grade movements of the earliar period from about 1910 to 1915 or so and would not have come on this 1925 Sangamo, It is a 16 size dial on a 17 size watch.

Steve
 
Posts: 1980 | Location: Kentucky in the USA | Registered: March 18, 2008
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Thanks Steve, I suppose 17 size dials are scarce as hen's teeth.
 
Posts: 3112 | Location: Klamath Falls, Oregon in the USA | Registered: October 13, 2007
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Mike,

Difficult to find in respectable condition unless you buy another watch with one on it.

Steve
 
Posts: 1980 | Location: Kentucky in the USA | Registered: March 18, 2008
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Steve, I've got a couple of these Red Ball dials on 16s watches; would the feet line up for a 17s movement?
 
Posts: 2962 | Location: Western New York in the USA | Registered: March 24, 2008
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Eric,

They most certainly will. The auction above is an example of that and you see that in many instances on ebay listings. If you look at the above listed auction with one of the photos of the bezel off, you can see part of the pillar plate exposed just inside the ring of the frame. What you see there is the difference between a 16 size dial and what would be covered by a 17 size dial.

Read this thread "Click"for a good explanation

Steve
 
Posts: 1980 | Location: Kentucky in the USA | Registered: March 18, 2008
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