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    Now I know what you'd get if you bred classic watches with old maps! I just know that if you sniffed that dial it would smell of museums or cathedrals. That's very special indeed.

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    It’s been a saga..

    Cheers Matt!


    Of all the Strela dial variants, this is the closest I’m going to get to the desirable Kirovskie one (top R)

    That is so commonly faked I can’t find a pic of a gen one to put in here!

    My favourite white dial is the bare bones Poljot one, also a bit of a rare bird (top row, third from left)
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    Quote Originally Posted by OhDark30 View Post
    Cheers Matt!


    Of all the Strela dial variants, this is the closest I’m going to get to the desirable Kirovskie one (top R)

    That is so commonly faked I can’t find a pic of a gen one to put in here!

    My favourite white dial is the bare bones Poljot one, also a bit of a rare bird (top row, third from left)
    Who knew Andy Warhol worked for 1MWF!

    I honestly never realised that there were so many variants.

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    It’s been a saga..

    Some of them are pretty subtle, like how high or low the name is printed (though both the black ones like mine they show (row 3) are ‘high’
    I guess having Strela, Sekonda and Poljot possibilities, plus Roman or Cyrillic helps bump up the total too :-)
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    From where I’m standing, it looks like the wait was worth it!
    Read my latest IWL blog entry! An Ode To Rule Breaking

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    Stunning restoration!!! Love the result!!!

    Huge congrats, and no doubt you will be getting tons of wrist enjoyment out of this project!!!
    Cheers,

    Chris

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    Lovely Kath .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Raza View Post
    From where I’m standing, it looks like the wait was worth it!
    Quote Originally Posted by stew77 View Post
    Stunning restoration!!! Love the result!!!

    Huge congrats, and no doubt you will be getting tons of wrist enjoyment out of this project!!!
    Thank you, gents!
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    Quote Originally Posted by DJW GB View Post
    Lovely Kath .

    Billy super duper
    She scrubbed up well, didn’t she?
    :-)
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    Yes . And it lifted me up from a crap night shift of cautioning trains because of broken signals

    Billy super duper

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