Show us your blue dial watches.

[durant7]

Holly Mackerel!  124 posts.  Many have many more than 1 Blue Dial watch.  Sure glad I started this late in life.  I have one 7006-8140R.  Bought it a year ago.  After some watchwrecking, I decided to let the local pro restore it so I can wear it this year.  I like it.  I have another that is not running, I may post and ask for advice on whether the dial can be restored.

 

[Nucejoe]

Me certainly hopes similar title doesn't start with other colours.   

Edited August 6, 2024 by Nucejoe
Spell

[AndyHull]

Today's blue dial is being sported by a SII Cal. VD57B based "Prime Time" chronometer. It looks good, but could easily look much better.

It is obviously engineered to a price, but the designer missed a few tricks that might have made this watch a little more interesting.

It has lume, on the hands only. It could do with at least one lume pip on the dial for orientation, but better still would be lume at each hour.

All of the hands are silver. It wouldn't cost more than a few cents to have fitted coloured chrono hands, and/or a coloured sweep seconds.

Red or orange would probably look pretty good, maybe both, red chrono and an orange or yellow sweep.

There were a few other issues.

The seller had fitted it to a pretty awful "rolled sheet metal" band, which was held in by two broken spring bars.
The crown and stem had not been fitted correctly and promptly pulled out when I went to set it.

The chrono had not been correctly reset when the battery was changed, but fortunately the manual for the module is available online, so these little annoyances were all easily addressed except the strap, as I only had a 19mm NATO in the stash.

Something more interesting in the correct 20mm size is on its way from the depths of China, which I may show when it appears. I may also have a crack at jazzing up the hands too, I'll see how I am placed for time.

Having said all that, this is a 404 club watch, one of only two chronographs in the collection. The other, a Swatch is by far the superior of the two in terms of quality.

Edited August 12, 2024 by AndyHull

[gpraceman]

When I first got into this hobby, I wanted to build myself a Seiko DressKX from parts.  It was intended to be my 2nd watch project.  The first being servicing an ETA 6497 clone that I turned into a pocket watch.  Well, the order for most of these parts got lost in the mail (received only an empty envelope).  Took me 2 months to get my money back from Cousins.  Then I reordered those parts.  Found out that I needed a different day wheel that will work with the crown at the 4 o'clock position.  More time lost waiting for parts.  Got distracted by other watch projects and life events.  Finally got motivated to put this watch together and then managed to break the stem.  More time lost waiting for parts.  Over a year later from embarking on this project, it is finally done.  Love the blue dial.  It's become my daily wear watch.

[Kalesony]

From June 1967.

[Kalesony]

And here are a few more, although the Oris only just scrapes into this category. 

[Razz]

Bulova Clipper

[mbwatch]

Originally bought as a parts movement, this Vostok 2214 arrived with a chunk missing from its crystal and the dial covered in sand. As I cleared the debris off the dial, I was smitten with its blue-purple sunburst. And since I am all about bringing back the most hopeless basket cases (and since I found the lost part I needed it to donate right under my nose) I went ahead and serviced it.

I love how it came out and it runs great. I even took my first stab at re-brushing the caseback with a result no worse than the rusty and pitted dial.

[sladew]

My Seiko 5 blue dial is a personal fave, together with the Rado Space Flight.

I am a huge fan of Rado watches.

I also have a few more blue dials knocking about that I'll take some photos of soon.

Slade.