Tapestry dial DJ just got back from Rolliworks, thoughts?

[Rollied]

So I recently acquired a 16233 tapestry dial DJ and promptly sent the watch to Rolliworks for a service and bracelet repair. All the great reviews regarding Rolliworks, Mike, and Saul were all true. Great place with great people! When I brought the watch to Saul, he dropped what he was doing and put my watch under the scope and showed me in detail what condition the watch was in and what he recommended to be done. You can really feel his passion for watches. I left the watch with him and was told an ETA of 4 weeks for a service, band repair, and a courtesy polish (I didn’t want the watch to look brand new, so this was perfect.)

Upon further research of the tapestry dials, I noticed mine came with a white date disc vs a champagne/gold date disc. I came by the shop and discussed this with Mike, in which he told me the disc was probably swapped out because the previous owner wanted a more modern look on the watch and that he could swap in a champagne date disc if I wanted to. To which I happily agreed. Now, 4 weeks later, as promised, my watch was ready to be picked up. I apologize in advance as I didn’t take a lot of BEFORE pictures, I wanted to drop off the watch before going on a vacation.






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Overall I’m very happy with the results, especially the bracelet was brought back to such pristine condition. However, the date font seem a little too bold to me. What do you guys think? I’ll try to take more pictures later on, just flew back from Hawaii this morning and just had enough time to pick up the watch and went to work.

[Richard Carver]

Date wheel looks fine, nice round three example.

[MorningTundra]

Date wheel looks perfectly fine to me.


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[aasubo]

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I don’t have a pic with the 13, but with 14 I would say that your date disc looks slightly bolder than mine.

However, it looks really great and the bracelet is beyond great!!!

Huge congrats!

Regards

Torsten


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[1William]

Looks great. They do very impressive work. I just started following them on Instagram and really enjoy the before and after pictures.

[haven_seeker]

That is a gorgeous reference and a fine specimen.

[iliketime]

been loving their bracelet repair, got a few oyster bracelets that need a visit

[Rollied]

Originally Posted by aasubo

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I don’t have a pic with the 13, but with 14 I would say that your date disc looks slightly bolder than mine.

However, it looks really great and the bracelet is beyond great!!!

Huge congrats!

Regards

Torsten


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Thanks bud, I could always count on you for reference!

[Rollied]

Here are some more pics, I remembered the white date disc also had open 6 and 9, but wasn’t this bold, the font is kinda bothering me.

[aasubo]

Good that you compared the „14“ now and as sorry as I am, but I feel you, the font doesn’t look correct, it’s looking like a font from the 28/31mm DJ.

I would ask Rolliworks about that font...

Is the 6/9 open with that disc?

Cheers
Torsten




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[brandrea]

I absolutely love that dial

[Rollied]

Originally Posted by aasubo

Good that you compared the „14“ now and as sorry as I am, but I feel you, the font doesn’t look correct, it’s looking like a font from the 28/31mm DJ.

I would ask Rolliworks about that font...

Is the 6/9 open with that disc?

Cheers
Torsten




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Yup yup this champagne disc also has open 6 and 9. I’m going to contact Mike and see!

[Richard Carver]

lol, Rolliworks will be mortified to have tried to fool the experts at TRF with his cheesy 'bold' wheel :) They'll probably want to hire you guys to vet all their old Rolex parts to avoid this embarrassment again!

[Rollied]

Originally Posted by Richard Carver

lol, Rolliworks will be mortified to have tried to fool the experts at TRF with his cheesy 'bold' wheel :) They'll probably want to hire you guys to vet all their old Rolex parts to avoid this embarrassment again!

I mean...I’m sure this particular date disc font is ok with a lot of people and they see no problem with it. For me, I love this dial and love staring at it, but every time I look at it, that date is bothersome to ME. So therefore I’m going to bring the watch in. I’ve never said Rolliworks tried to pull a fast one on me or anything of the likes. I just hope I’m lucky and they’ll have another date disc with skinnier font.