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Old 14 April 2012, 06:36 AM   #82
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Originally Posted by capote View Post
What do you mean its not real guilloche work? As far as I know guilloche is only a repetetive pattern. Their dials seems to fit that discription.
Real guilloche is cut using a rose engine lathe with an extremely sharp tool that "engraves" the repetative pattern. True guilloche work produces many light reflective surfaces. In some cases enamal is then painted and fired on.

The pattern that is on most watches these days are stamped and painted.

Some rudimentary info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilloch%C3%A9
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