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Old 17 August 2016, 11:47 PM   #1
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Sub Dial Swap?

Would I be unacceptably butchering this 168000 (1989, 9M serial) if I were to swap the luminova service dial with a tritium dial?

Currently the dial, hands, bezel pearl all lume strongly (consistently and matching).

I have sourced a reasonably priced and quite attractive tritium dial. It was an impulse buy but it's now in the mail on its way to me.

I'm debating whether to do the swap. The hands (and pearl) will no longer match, unless I have them relumed (by someone like LA Watch Works).

Would I be making a pigs-ear of this piece by overly messing with it? Or would I be enhancing it by returning a period correct dial?

Any advice or suggestions would be much appreciated.

Thanks!
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