Call me crazy, but I love these dials. No matter how I turn it, the light catches different elements of the art work.

I typically find these on 12s watches, but stumbled in to this one on a 16s Waltham. I generally bypass the machined or stamped metal dials, looking for the tell tail signs of a hand tooled dial.

A close look shows that the pattern is not symmetrical. The depth and length of each bit of scroll work is deeper and or longer from one side to the other, the number of dimples to fill in the centers is different from side to side. It's as if the artist might have been dominantly right or left handed.

It also doesn't appear to be a machined pattern that was simply touched up or refined by an artist. This looks to me like it is done from scratch.

What do we know about the technique used to manufacture these dials?

What do we know about models from the factory with no seconds register?

C-1918 AWWC0 m1908 gr620
SW-SS 15J
Cased in a Wadsworth RR Model 25yr Pilot screw front and back covers.

Advertised as a strong runner, (yea, what ever, dude)

Turns out to run with a 0.7Ms Beat Error at 18005 pendant up and 17990 to 17995 in all other positions. No complaints from me on a watch that isn't advertised as an adjusted watch.

Pulling you a bit tighter

And the close up photo showed me a bit of lint I had to go back in and remove... Thanks Mr. Camera.

I'm with you, Paul. I like both these art deco dials and the factory metal dials.