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Tropical dials - what are they?
What is a tropical dial? It is a term that means different things to different people. To an unscrupulous dealer with a watch with a damaged dial, it represents an opportunity to represent that dial as something exotic and desirable. Also, lets not forget the possibility of adding a healthy price premium to a watch that has an tropical dial. As Edmond put it so well, when one hears a watch described as having a tropical dial, it is like a “big red warning light” that means you need to proceed with extreme caution. Edmond, you are correct. For a topic that is so subjective and open to interpretation, defining what is tropical and what is not is always going to be open to abuse. It is with this in mind that I thought it would be useful to compile a photographic diary, if one likes, of various watches that do appear to have genuinely uncontested tropical dials. Such a view will always be a democratic one….if a sizeable enough body of views disagrees with my photographic compendium or if new examples come to light, the article will be edited and adjusted to take account of such new information. My starting point, then, is providing a framework from which to judge. Marcello provided an initial checklist. A dial is tropical when....
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Tropical dials - what are they?
What is a tropical dial? It is a term that means different things to different people. To an unscrupulous dealer with a watch with a damaged dial, it represents an opportunity to represent that dial as something exotic and desirable. Also, lets not forget...
Cheers Bill...
......such an obvious question, but not really examined anywhere properly.
