Sherpa Ops

JasperK

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I've seen a couple of the forum members from here post nice Instagram comments about the Craft+Tailored Sherpa Ops video, and in particular the positive mention of Martijn's book. I was wondering what you guys thought of the example itself? Are the missing bits of lume on the hands something you would address or something you'd keep as is? In general, how do color-matched hands effect the value of a watch for you?
 

SteveHarris

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Personally I don't think it's a huge deal. You have to remember how old the lume is on these watches and if these watches have been used, they're going to look like this. The only issue would be if the lume continued to crumble which could then get in the mechanism. Personally I have no problem reluming hands where the condition of the watch calls for it. They're all going to have to be relumed at some point or have skeleton hands.

Steve
 

JeromeB

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Reluming is ok, but old watches cant be relumed with new superluminova as the hands will glow like a christmas three.. which probably will not match the dial.. but thats my opinion.
 

JimJupiter

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Right. You need to adjust the lume to match the rest. A job that nowadays more and more watchmakers can do, also with the old lume ingredients.

Nico
 

SteveHarris

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I've mentioned him to you already J but James Hyman aka thealchemistrelumer on Instagram is really a bit of a wizard with matching lume etc.
 

Joe_A

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Right. You need to adjust the lume to match the rest. A job that nowadays more and more watchmakers can do, also with the old lume ingredients.

Nico

Nico, how does one find "the old lume ingredients."

For example, is the material currently available that would have been used in the 1960s that would have included the tritium excitation?

Regards,

Joe
 
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