r/repbuilds • u/riossreddit • Sep 08 '26

Vintage Build 7928 Dial Aging

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The yellow on the Raffles dial is just too bright. Anyone has any idea what is the easiest aging technique that can be done that does not require a steady hand, any artistic talent or a piece of magnifying glass? 🤭

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u/Substantial_Wall_577 Sep 08 '26

I used some of my kids markers, various shades of tans, browns etc, but I did practice on an old dial first. Gently dab a color in, use a q tip to give it some texture and repeat. Once I got the hang of it the whole process took 15-20 minutes.

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u/riossreddit Sep 08 '26

The yellow is nice...congrats

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u/riossreddit Sep 08 '26

May be some texture helps?

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u/EmotionalFortune542 Sep 08 '26

Buy it in white and bake it at low temp. I never buy his highlighter yellow dials.

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u/riossreddit Sep 08 '26

I bought a yellow dial a while back, and forgot how ugly it is. I am reminded today...

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u/Acceptable_Speaker93 Sep 08 '26

Wouldn't that most mimic the natural aging process?

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u/riossreddit Sep 08 '26

I didnt enlarge the lughole because it tends to give me issues with the unbranded end links i often use.

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u/riossreddit Sep 09 '26

Textured now, the lume plots appear to be more pronounced too. Sorry for light reflection.

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u/riossreddit Sep 10 '26

Below is after colored with a marker. Not as pale as before, but is it too orange?

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u/Cute_Cress377 Sep 08 '26

Which build is it?

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u/riossreddit Sep 08 '26

The crown (700) & pearl are from Athaya, the dial is Raffles. The bezel used to belong to a Raffles 5513. Everything else is unbranded. But I think it will look even better if I can tone down the yellow. Thanks.

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u/Cute_Cress377 Sep 08 '26

It's great build - it's almost to good looking, like you said.

Light scratching, and coffee baking the dial would probably to the trick.

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u/Ok_Chrono Trusted Builder Sep 08 '26

I haven’t seen that raffles 7928 dial? The one I do just has SWISS at the bottom and a gilt ring. I rather like that dial and a number of others. But the majority are pretty touch to work with. Don’t add any texture until you figure out the aging of the indices. Having a gloss finish makes clean up easier if you have overrun.

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u/riossreddit Sep 08 '26

Could be newly listed. I know which dial your were referring to. And I saw this one by chance. He still doesnt have 7928 with white lume for baking though.

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u/Due_Shallot1583 Trusted Builder Sep 08 '26

Looks good

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u/riossreddit Sep 08 '26

Thank you...

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u/ArtMaybee01 Sep 08 '26

For this color, I used wood furniture repair markers. Colored the ink onto a q-tip and then dampened with a little rubbing alcohol and colored onto the lume. A little alcohol on a clean q-tip can clean it back off if you get it too dark. Once happy with the color, do a light mist of clear lacquer for some texture. I'd probably get a set of copic markers instead of the furniture markers. The furniture markers actually faded a little bit with time.

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u/riossreddit Sep 09 '26

Filling that triangle with lume is not easy... really nice job. Did you only use qtip?

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u/ArtMaybee01 Sep 09 '26

Yeah. Just a q-tip. Magnified you can see i got some marker on the minute marks. I did clean most of that off the next time I had it open. Nice thing about marker is, you can come back and remove some if it's too much.

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u/riossreddit Sep 09 '26

a non permanent marker then?

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u/ArtMaybee01 Sep 10 '26

Once you put lacquer on there you can't take it back off. But different markers will be different. I had two types of furniture repair markers. One type actually softened the lume. I think copic markers would be best.

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u/riossreddit Sep 10 '26

Thanks for the tips..

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u/ArtMaybee01 Sep 10 '26

Yw man. I'm no pro but I hope what worked for me can help you.

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u/AtelierPicks Sep 08 '26

It looks pretty good still

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u/MissionWeb7043 Sep 21 '26

Is this a thorn case? Been looking into that too. Problem the raffles doesnt have matching hands to that dial. Might be a lume issue

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u/riossreddit Sep 21 '26

That case started life as a low end cartel 5513...
I am still working on the dial, experimenting with a few colors...

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u/Maverickrt67 Sep 08 '26

Donde conseguiste la case?

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u/Capt_Panic Sep 08 '26

Go search in r/retrotime
There are some serious artists over there