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After my opinion: Rolf been posting a not so hard review on WUS in fact, as I found it quite smooth even I knew he was pissed-off since the very moment he opened the box.
Rolf was not agressive or difficult in his private posts with Carlos and he said constantly that he wanted a smooth agreement.
I was personnaly very deceived by the first reponses of Carlos and was really expecting better propositions!
I will not go in details but in my opinion, Rolf didn't do anything wrong there.
I spoke to my watch-maker today and he told me after looking a very close picture of the watch:
The fact that it seems to be a mat and porous black paint on the dial isn't the best start for him to work as those paints are very sensitives to any touch and can't be cleaned if you miss a tiny bit.
Doing a free hand job on the dial to relume it, is risky specialy in the angles of the markers(seems like round markers are easyer...): You miss and the all dial is f'cked.
He named that putting special tape around the markers to avoid any over-flow of the new lume is also risky because of the sensitive mat black paint who could maybe reap-off when the tape is taken out.
All in all, dials are apparently machine-made and retaking the job by hand is not as easy on every dials: It depend of it's surface and paint quality.
It's apparently a cheap made dial after his meaning so...He wasn't very positive even he's willing to give a try.
That's what the guy told me: He may not be a gigantic expert on reluming but he been working on many different brands since over 25 years.
He want to make a precise job and don't want something who looks like redone: It's hard.
That's also why he asked me at once if it was possible to get another dial in case the first try don't look perfect.
That's where it stands and from what I understand, the best thing would have been a correctly made dial's lume application at the conception at the fabric...Nothing else.
All in all, guys, it's more easy to say than to do this reluming...