Spider dial, show them now.........

Dec 19, 2008,07:19 AM
 

Today i found one of my first small crown i bought from a dutch friend years ago.... Haven't seen it in a while and as i like caracter in original dials, this is a nice example of aging. It has a nice craquellé in the laquer of the surface from the dial giving it the Spider look, it's from '58 with still the Swiss radium dial in there. Lot's of Spider dials we see in the first sporties that had white gold suroundings on the indexes but this here is a early 2 lined Sub...





Together with a '58 that has brown vains [difficult to capture this effect..]




Here a a 4 lined spider i got from a nice Italia collector...


And before some grumpy old men start bleating, here a mint 5508 ;- )



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Wow heavy stuff again !

 
 By: DrStrong : December 19th, 2008-08:56
my humble contribution is this baby spider on the edge ;-)...  

WHAOOO.....

 
 By: Philipps : December 19th, 2008-12:41
That a brown beauty Jeff!!!

You have good eyes Mr Brown ! [nt]

 
 By: DrStrong : December 20th, 2008-04:57
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Amazing

 
 By: kbc.2222 : December 19th, 2008-16:31

I'm not familiar with the spider dial term. Can you explain it to us Rolex newbies?

 
 By: AnthonyTsai : December 21st, 2008-16:31
Why is the below picture a 4 Spider dial ? Why 4? 4 for each quarter of the dial is cracked? Cheers, Anthony...  

4 refers to the 4 lines of text in the lower part of the dial...

 
 By: DrStrong : December 22nd, 2008-23:44
because of the additional 2 lines of chronometer certification. Cheers Jeff

Ah ok. Guess that was a stupid question then :P lol [nt]

 
 By: AnthonyTsai : December 23rd, 2008-05:58
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