Quality Control - lack of - enhances the value of timepieces?

[meoramri]

Read recently about the owner of a Tudor watch with some missing bits on the dial - in this instance people was commenting that his piece is unique and could fetch a high value. However, is everyone that lucky?

To start this new subject, I would like to share with you my QC moment. This is with my Aristo Flieger Automatic 3H114. The first obvious problem was the quality of the painting of the lume on the dial. There are smudges at the edges .The second problem is that the "painter" could not even follow the guide print that must have been printed on the dial prior to adding the lume. The number "3" is blatantly obvious. You can clearly see them missing the ends of the number "3" in the photo below.



Anyone wants to share their own QC moment?

[Omnipotent]

funny...i thought the "3" looked perfectly fine...the edges have to give way to the date window, isn't it? 

[hanz079]

Yup, looks fine bro.
They could have moved the date window just 2mm to the left abd you will have a complete '3'.

[takashi78]

Nothing wrong that i can see.

Maybe a closeup of what you mean?

[hanz079]

From the closeup, i can see that the date window actually 'eats' part of the lume on the 3 marker. I dun think this is poor qc, poor placement of the date window is more likely.

[Watchnewby]

Poor placement or "design fault", if you ask me.

[takashi78]

Nothing to do with QC i recon.

If anything i would say that person has skill to paint around the date window.

[meoramri]

From the closeup, i can see that the date window actually 'eats' part of the lume on the 3 marker. I dun think this is poor qc, poor placement of the date window is more likely.

Sorry guys. The picture that I took didn't do justice to the problem that I mentioned about the lume on numbr "3". Let me try to desribe to you what is actually on the dial. From the picture, you can see the uptick (at downtick) of the ends of the number 3. This is not lumed but the tracing line of the number "3". Instead of following the tracing line, the painter of the lume (here I assume is is done by hand, it could be done by a robot), the ends of the the lumed 3 stops at the edge of the date window. In fact, it should continue on. Now, what you see is the plain white tracing line of number "3".

Interestingly, the ends of the lume for number "9" looks similar to the ends of the number "3".


This could mean that the font used for the painting of the lumes is consistent. If that is the case, it could only mean that the font used to trace the number "3" is inconsistent with the rest.

Anyone who owns a Aristo also have the same observations?