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hs111
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A small change.. Can lead to another appeal.. :))

Friends,
Some of you may kindly remember my previous post,
about finding my personal JLC 159 ( in addition to my wife's,
who has ever since finding our/her first one, kept her with joy).


E 159, my wife's pleasure in green

Had been looking for a while, and after a nice specimen was found,
I have been again very much liking this reference :
Simple, low key, but classy and with a lovely dial in black and well patinated
numbers.


My E159, black dial - Before

Only thing, that was nagging a bit, were the "empty" sword-like hands,
were the old filling had been lost, already a while ago.
Other than that all was / is correct.
So I was deliberating to either leave as is, not bad at all, BTW.
Or either getting new hands, or re-doing the hands with a matching paint,
matching the number indices.

As I got a friend's recommendation to have it done by a special watchmaker,
whom I had got to know & who also, had been taking good care of some
of my other Vintage JLC's.

Took a little while, but not too long,
and now she's back, restored to full glory.

Finally just here briefly, the Before & After,
which makes me happy ; very nice work,
really nicely matching the index numbers, and a pleasure
to look at..



E159 - Left: Before, Rt: After



New shoes, filled hands

Hope, that wasn't too boring,
as I am aware that probably as many here would have left it,
as those considering the change, also made by me.

Of course: The truth is in the eye of the Beholder !
Isn't it ?..

Cheers & Best,
hs



This message has been edited by hs111 on 2015-07-07 03:54:58