This dial is on a watch I was watching on Ebay. The dial doesn't look right to me. Are the red numbers something that someone simply added to it?

They look hand painted to me.

Regards! Mark

The way they go over the South Bend trademark makes me thing they are hand painted & also where they go onto the second hand dial, since that is a seperate disc I don't think a factory would have done it that way.

Anyway that is my two cents.

Tom

Tom and Mark: I agree with you. The dial looks redone. the lettering is quite good but it just doesn't fit.

Perhaps someone who needed to have 24 hour time? (military). Did not want to get it wrong so had the numbers added?

The red hours are hand painted. Look at the like numbers, i.e. "2." They're all different. You can even see the brush marks.

They're were trainmen that had hand painted stuff on their watches all the time. Sometimes I was the purpatrator. I painted comic images of Spiro Agnew on a few Hamiltons in my day.

The way that 19 overlaps on to the hour tract makes me think of 24 hour numbers could be painted on the Crystal. This was done in western Canada by watch inspectors so the could be used in territory West of Lake Superior.

Larry

Nice dial Ernie. I found out that some numbers were hand painted when I cleaned up a nice Illinois dial on a Sangamo some years ago!