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Bronze Moray?

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Posted: Fri May 14th, 2010 10:26 am

FuzzyB
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This semi-dart dial is fantastic! I like how it combines both of the original Moray dial designs. The dart dial by itself is very cool looking, but I think the more subdued darts of this new design would be more appealing in the long run.

Steve Laughlin wrote: I think those are all very good ideas, and I like the way they look...

Posted: Fri May 14th, 2010 11:51 am

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Steve Laughlin wrote: stew77 wrote:
Steve...hope you don't mind...was playing with your awesome new bronze Moray dial, and shortened the dart length to about half just to help visualize.

This is what it looked like...forgive my poor photo editing abilities. Just something to consider in a sea of cool dials.

looks nice, but I think when the triangles get too short, it really starts to look too much like the Anonimo dial.... but maybe we can do something in between the 2.

That's true Steve...and I guess starts to move the Moray dial away from it's true identity.

Yeah...maybe something in between the two will strike the right balance. I agree with many others comments that black and brown dials will play nicely here.

Posted: Sun May 16th, 2010 01:40 am

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Great project so far...

How about a BLACK CARBON FIBER dial?

Or maybe a GREEN SLATE dial?

Posted: Sun May 16th, 2010 08:18 pm

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I totally agree...the short darts are just too short...that doesn't look right....but a nice try anyway

Posted: Sun May 16th, 2010 08:23 pm

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oh my.gif

....That's more like a Fliegeruhr...not much of a Diver

Posted: Tue May 18th, 2010 12:37 pm

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FuzzyB wrote: Another interesting option would be mother of pearl.

Here is a rendering of a MOP dial in the bronze case. I think it would look pretty nice. The color variation in the MOP would pick up a lot of the different colors of the bronze as it ages.

Last edited on Tue May 18th, 2010 12:38 pm by FuzzyB

Posted: Tue May 18th, 2010 01:12 pm

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FuzzyB wrote: FuzzyB wrote: Another interesting option would be mother of pearl.

Here is a rendering of a MOP dial in the bronze case. I think it would look pretty nice. The color variation in the MOP would pick up a lot of the different colors of the bronze as it ages.

Posted: Tue May 18th, 2010 01:54 pm

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I talked with Ralf today and finalized some ideas that we can do, and I got confirmation on what we can't do. We have decided to offer 3 dial colors, but one dial design, also one color for the hands, crown, case back, buckle, and that will be black PVD. The reason we can't offer 2 or 3 options for the dial design and hands is because they will have minimum orders on all those parts, so every time we order another finish, it will be 100 more parts, and we are predicting that we will only make around 10 of these watches at this point.

Ralf prefers the 2824-2 top grade over the 2892 because of the robustness and durability of the 2824-2 over the more delicate 2892, but we did not come to a conclusion on this yet.

For the dial colors we will offer black, brown, and blue. All 3 will be sun-brushed from the center out.

Here is a rendering of the designs and a link to view it larger.

http://www.benaruswatches.com/3t/bronze/bronzemorays.jpg

Posted: Tue May 18th, 2010 02:00 pm

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Brown would be great! I don't have any brown watches.

Posted: Tue May 18th, 2010 03:41 pm

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I'm afraid you've lost me with the black hands and PVD bits. I think matte steel would look MUCH better. Black hands on a black or brown dial makes no sense to me.

Posted: Tue May 18th, 2010 03:51 pm

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Steve Laughlin wrote: I talked with Ralf today and finalized some ideas that we can do, and I got confirmation on what we can't do. We have decided to offer 3 dial colors, but one dial design, also one color for the hands, crown, case back, buckle, and that will be black PVD. The reason we can't offer 2 or 3 options for the dial design and hands is because they will have minimum orders on all those parts, so every time we order another finish, it will be 100 more parts, and we are predicting that we will only make around 10 of these watches at this point.

Ralf prefers the 2824-2 top grade over the 2892 because of the robustness and durability of the 2824-2 over the more delicate 2892, but we did not come to a conclusion on this yet.

For the dial colors we will offer black, brown, and blue. All 3 will be sun-brushed from the center out.

Here is a rendering of the designs and a link to view it larger.

http://www.benaruswatches.com/3t/bronze/bronzemorays.jpg

Looks FANTASTIC Steve!!!!

I'm still unsure about the PVD bits, however, like rawhide said above...matte steel might be better...

Love the dial with ever so shorter "mini darts", and although the brown dial is probably my favorite...the dial color options here look great too...even that dark blue looks good with the bronze!

You've got another winner on your hands!

Last edited on Tue May 18th, 2010 03:52 pm by stew77

Posted: Tue May 18th, 2010 04:13 pm

Steve Laughlin
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Rawhide wrote:
I'm afraid you've lost me with the black hands and PVD bits. I think matte steel would look MUCH better. Black hands on a black or brown dial makes no sense to me.

The color is subjective, and it is very hard to please everyone, but black hands on black dials, or brown dials is nothing new, or strange. I just installed black hands on a black dial Sea Devil, and they look great. I also installed black hands on my BRG moray and it also looks great.

Here are some examples

brown dial and black hands:
http://www.watchsource.eu/gallery/panerai-radiomir-marina-militare/panerai-radiomir-marina-militare-2.jpg

and a black dial with black hands:
http://people.timezone.com/mdisher/sihh07/panerai/radblkseal2.jpg

and this one is good too, kind of gun metal with black hands:
http://blog.perpetuelle.com/wp-content/uploads/Pam339RadiomirComposite.jpg

a different brand:
http://exquisitetimepieces.com/mm5/1208547065_Untitled-6.jpg

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