rdenney
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Mine seems to be all one color
Jan 27, 2015,22:36 PM
Blomman, you and I have corresponded about my JLC ref. 2953 that is identical to the lower picture in your 12-1/2''' catalog page. Perhaps you found that page as a result of our correspondence.
I do believe that the change in color is not two-tone, but rather just a change in the way the light reflects from the brushed dial surface. Mine is all one color.
JLC Ref. 2953, ca. 1945, 12-1/2''' P450/4C (lousy iPhone pic, unfortunately)
The seconds hand on this watch is not original--it is the seconds hand for a caliber 820, which uses the same center-seconds pinion as the P450/4C in this watch. Everything else is original. When I received the watch, it was missing the seconds hand, but I have seen these with a variety of seconds hands in both gold and blued steel. The most common is the egg-tail shape in the ad posted up-thread.
The dial is brushed very lightly in a vertical direction, and does not appear to me to have ever been refinished, despite that a couple of the markers have been nudged slightly out of position.
Rick "who has promised Blomman to write about this watch here for several weeks, but has been delayed in making proper photos" Denney