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Tudor Oyster Prince redial and restoration!

3.7K views 7 replies 5 participants last post by  Phil_G  
#1 ·
Hello everybody, after a few years I decided to rejoin the watch obsession.
In 2018, my father gifted to me a Tudor watch. I knew nothing about it, and in this forum I learned that was a Tudor Oyster Prince, ref. 7995, Tudor Caliber 2483 (not sure about the mechanism). Sadly, it was redialed. And that is what I wanna do.

My question is, how can I found the original design? And in that case, should I take to a watchmaking and tell him to redial it? Or should I buy a new dial? taking into consideration that it's a watch from 1965-1969

Any response would be helpful. I'll leave the photos attached.

Thank you everybody and greetings from Argentina!

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#3 ·
Cool watch and lovely gif from your father.

I'd try and find the correct dial yourself - you have the time and desire more than a watchmaker does.

Some companies can refinish the current dial to how the one that was originally in the watch was.

Than you for your advise! I can add that the watch is from 1967 (serial starts at 535XXX), and the bracelet from february 1995.

Which company does that job? Because i couldn't find any replacement.
 
#5 ·
That's a really cool watch - and as it's a family gift, my two cents is to find an original dial rather than have it redialed again. Before I knew better, I had the dial on my grandfather's 1950s Omega redialed, and while it looks nice, it doesn't feel the same as original and I wish I'd just left it as it was. To me, a good/original dial is the most important part of the watch - any redial is going to be just that, a facsimile of the original, but never the same as the original. If you're in no real rush, I'd suggest that in the meantime you keep enjoying the watch as it is, and then simply keep on the hunt for an original replacement dial on the auction sites...
 
#7 ·
That's a really cool watch - and as it's a family gift, my two cents is to find an original dial rather than have it redialed again. Before I knew better, I had the dial on my grandfather's 1950s Omega redialed, and while it looks nice, it doesn't feel the same as original and I wish I'd just left it as it was. To me, a good/original dial is the most important part of the watch - any redial is going to be just that, a facsimile of the original, but never the same as the original. If you're in no real rush, I'd suggest that in the meantime you keep enjoying the watch as it is, and then simply keep on the hunt for an original replacement dial on the auction sites...
Thank you!!
Sadly, my father redialed once, long ago. That's for I'm looking for the original identity of the watch.
 
#8 ·
I think your questions will be better answered in a Rolex/Tudor forum. You wanna know anything about Seiko than this place is the way to go. Regarding your watch, look at the pics below, same reference numbers as yours, everything original:
476001
476002