Watch Dials Explained: Enamel, Meteorite, and More | The Classroom 

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Very educational. Thanks for making this episode.

Thanks Mike, this is one of the most interesting and educational videos on watches I have seen in quite some time. I really enjoyed it. That Lapis dial on the Rolex is stunning.

Excellent, informative video. Very professionally done. Keep up the good work!

Umm...that video was awesome! Informative, entertaining, keep them coming.

Great video no nonsense no messing around just solid info delivered by someone who clearly knows their stuff and is passionate about it.

Wow. One of my favorite videos on materials and the process of applying them. Very cool. Thanks

Great video! Super interesting!! Thanks Mike

Loved this video!! So much packed in

Great stuff, Mike. That laurent ferrier world time: my goodness the beauty.

Super interesting. Excellent video!

Best dail video on the hole of RU-vid superb job loved every second. Now I own several sunburst dails. How are those made do you make a part 2 of this video greets from the Netherlands

Great video. Enjoyed it very much. Educational and I like the way you go from technical to personal preference. Thank you!

Love these videos! Thank you.

Very well done and precise

Great educational video. I am a new watch enthusiast and I like getting into the details about watches. One thing that I think would be interesting is to take your same discussion and discuss manufacturing costs of some of these different materials. I would not want you to share proprietary information, but it would be nice to pull back the curtain so we can have an idea when we see an enamel dial, we know what it costs to make versus a linen dial. Thanks for a great video, Michael.

I am certain you have seen the Piaget dials from the 1970's through 1990's. The Lapis, Malachite, Mother of Pearl with diamonds and sometimes only with gold dot markers were truly breathtaking to see and appreciate the artistry. Also, EBEL did some wonderful dials back in the 1990's to the present in their collection of watches. Usually with diamond markers, especially when you think, just how did they achieve this? Amazing work.

Great episode Mike.

Very very interesting. Thank you!

Thank you for the valuable information

Excellent presentation, thank you very much. Subscribed.

01:43 I wonder if Seiko has ever made skeleton watches with Hardlex? Because THAT is less brittle than sapphire.

This is a brilliant video. Thx for dropping that knowledge on us.

MM is a freaking stud!!!! I love listening to his narratives! Somebody get that man a bourbon, cigar, and easy chair! Next lesson please MM! 👍

That was excellent! Thank you!

Thank you for that very educating video. I wish I could give more than one like. I really appreciate the knowledge of an actual watchmaker. Keep Mike coming, please. ;-)

This is fascinating. I wish I was in the watch industry. Love any information I can get on them. Great video

Super great video, Cudos!!

Great, great video. Two-toned "art deco" dials are my favourite. Wonder what were They using for putting this extra satin finish for vintage dials. All the best!

Nice, new knowledge!

I have been looking for quite some time for a watch with a mirror dial, like the ones on technical instruments like voltage and ampere meters. I still haven't found one.

Awesome Video 👌

Excellent!!!

amazing video, captivating until the end.

Excellent video!

This is very helpful for explaining the cost of certain watches. Producing some of these dials mentioned I imagine require very high technology.

Amazing video

Interesting. Do very cheap watches sometimes do paper faces? And what is in my Longines Conquest blue dial quartz? It seems to my eye aluminum with some slight sunburst effect done by scraping the metal. Are the hands steel?

Just watched your video and discovered that I have a watch with a porcelain dial, bought it some years ago 👍😁

While I was watching this wondering if there is any new kind of material for dials and finishes that haven't been tried yet? Maybe something crazy like a diamond or ruby or eve a jade stone that has been laser-cut paper-thin? I don't know just thinking out loud.

amazing vid

Very good information. Is there a way to create dials as a DIY project for a simple watch for a crafter?

RESPECT THIS GUY !

You have a new subscriber, I am glad I found this.

I can’t thank you enough. Enjoyed it

FANTASTIC

This is an excellent video and seems to be one of the only decent ones . Do you know any books on watch dial types / history in English? Le cadran looks great but believe is only in french.

Awesome video. How are sunburst dials made?

Make more of this videos very good

Informative... I want a Laurent Ferrier! I want an enamel dial FP Journe!

Liked, subscribed, shared. Only thing I can say is...awesome!

Very interesting Sensai 👍

The shipwreck coin is awesome! SR-71 titanium turkey feather dial is the coolest I’ve ever heard of.

Thanks Mike, intersting.

thank you for this very interesting youtube. i guess the only thing i personally missed was aventurine dials

Thank you

I love enamel over guillochè! RGM will make you a custom pattern that you designed yourself.

Big question of mine is vintage 1940s-1970s military matte black dials... like the typical vitnam era type 2 dial. how were they produced to get such a matte even black color? I imagine its some sort of oxide plating.

Carbon fiber in blue might be good. We have something in car word called fade paint job were two colors get spray next to and over each other to fade into each other.

You gotta get this guy on another episode oh my god!!!!!!!!!

How do they paint the dials? Such as changing the colors of the whole dial or making gradient colors on the dial?

What constitutes an "Exotic" dial? I got the general idea from context, but when I try to search a technical definition, all I get are Paul Newman Daytona results.

IMO Grand seiko makes a a very beautiful dials. I was hoping they were mentioned in this video.

very nice infos.

Good!!! 👍 👍 👍

My favourite dial, my great granddads English smiths deluxe gold from the 50’s

Incredible video. Very informative without being a list video. Subbed!

Is it possible to replace the watch hour indexes

Wondering if I could send you a photo of my Seiko dial which is peeling (enamel?). I want to try to restore it. Thanks.

I think the watches they make now will not change at all, ceramic... that is why people by vintage for the charm. Very intresting review, thanks

I'd like a meteorite dial Rolex.

Hi. I need help build my first custom made watch. can i use 32mm dial to in 32.6mm dial size case. The dial size is 32mm and case require 32.6 - 33.9. if anyone have any ideas please let me know. Thank you

I was so happy to hear him say that porcelain is one of his favorites. I get so sick of all the fancy stuff. That’s just my opinion don’t get me wrong…but It’s just been so overdone. I’ve actually owned a rose engine lathe and helped reproduce one also…. and don’t get me wrong they can do some incredible and beautiful things. that machine was probably one of the coolest historic artifacts that I’ve ever had in my laboratory. But timeless design wins out always. That doesn’t mean everyone has to agree, but a truly refined taste, someone that’s been around this shit for decades and seen all the fads, owned all the tools, and has tried everything… You will usually see them have the most classic of tastes and palette. Doesn’t mean you can’t like crazy fancy weird stuff too… But if you had to pick one to wear for the rest of your life… I would want a 57 Chevrolet of watches not some big Ferrari with rims and a subwoofer system and flames painted on the side. Hope that comparison isn’t too extreme 😂 By the way as somebody who’s sliced up dozens of bodies in my basement… Oh shit I didn’t mean that I meant as somebody who’s sliced up pounds and pounds of meteorright over the last decade and a half…. I’ve sliced up shit loads of meteoright over the last 2 decades, I think Rolex is slabbing the stuff up and leaving it thick enough so that they can grind it on an angle of the grain. Basically like cutting a 45° across woodgrain instead of looking at it straight on or straight from the side like you’re used to seeing it. And since he was talking about burls in the video… Meteorites are like the wooden burls of metals. They have no uniform grain… kind of goes every witch way in knots. But you can kind of get an idea for each piece and grind it so that you get the effect wanted.

Rolex Meteroid Dials are outstanding

What do you mean with sapphire getting cracked by being looked at?

Wow I am knocked over by your explanation of dials you are truly an artigiano,,forza ferrari e forza itala🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹👌👌👌👌👌👍👍👍👍🏎🏎🏎🏎🏎

This is the dad figure I never had 😂

Where I can order a custom dial in 14k gold?

Talking about the dials and not mentioning Grand Seiko is a straight heresy!!

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This is Tom Cruise from Tropic Thunder change my mind.

What about sunburst or linen dials? How are those made?

Why did this fella leave Watchbox?

sorry, but i really need to know ... why can't dials just be thicker? ok i understand when you're trying to make it really thinly transparent, or when you're repurposing a case designed for a thin metal dial, but it sounds like manufacturers are unnecessarily obsessed with thin dials. also, we have porcelain-coated metal, but i'm not aware of dials made of straight ceramic. but it seems like an ok material for the job. comments?

Can you hand paint a logo like Rolex on a dial.

What's the big deal about applied indices as a sign of some special effort -- when so many cheap dress watches use them so freely?

Wait a minute! Are you actually telling me Meteorite dials are not made out of Meteorite!!!!???

How i can make dial, i love watches and want to be a watch maker.

0:30..."stamp these dials out"...he was talking about a machine to punch out the dail shape not stamping the hour mark on. Is noone review your video?

The master is talking.

Sounds like The voice of Ted and family Guy,

He doesn't seem to fully understand meteor dials. It's not a specific cut, or anything that Rolex does differently. It's just a specific meteor that they use. The inner structure is part of the meteor properties, not the way someone cuts it.

He is so sound

4:53 This is just false

A shipwreck coin dial is possibly the most pretentious dial ever thought up of.

Ewww hublot

Dearest , what is a 'sapphire dial' btw? Watch your words. Please.

there wasn't good example for zodiac....

Oh boy... This "expert" thinks that an AP tapesserie dial and an Omega Aqua Terra dial are made the same way??? Lol