• Apprentice
    19 Nov 2018, 6:27 p.m.

    Back side of the mark 11 as I can see the hand is correct and the dial
aluminum, I have a second dial that came with this one and has a correct ref
number I can't
    find this dial anywhere, anyone else who has some information on the
    dial.

    BFH regards

  • Master
    20 Nov 2018, 1:46 p.m.

    It's a Tritium dial for a RAF Mark 11, and it's unusual because the T is not
    inside a circle. The hand does not belong to that dial.

    You may be able to find a similar dial by seaching the net.

  • Apprentice
    20 Nov 2018, 7:14 p.m.

    Thanks for
    your reply.

    The hand is fixed as the latter pic shows, the dial is verified as original by
    watchmaker, but no one has seen this one before, size lettering etc fits
    perfectly, this one came with another dial with correct numbers on the back
    61xxxZJ also from IWC, both dials have slight lumens.

  • Master
    20 Nov 2018, 8:05 p.m.

    I have nothing to add other than that dial was for a IWC cal 89, the luminouts
    paint has fallen off, and repeat that the hand does not belong there and
    should be easily removed, preferably by a watchmaker.

  • Apprentice
    20 Nov 2018, 8:11 p.m.

    This is the back side of the mark 11 dial ![This is the back side, and very
    different from the original. Thanks for

    your reply, we were just taken apart from the v shape cut above the 12 and
    thebackside

  • Apprentice
    20 Nov 2018, 8:22 p.m.

    Having some connection issues with the server at the forum.

  • Connoisseur
    20 Nov 2018, 9:28 p.m.

    As you already mentioned, this dial is at least debatable. Not only the notch
    at the twelve, which no Mk. 11 dial has. As well the structure of the back.

    Have you checked with a magnet? An all original literally "jumps" on a magnet
    (not a very strong magnet, simply something like a refrigerator magnet) once
    the magnet is in the vicinity of the dial. In case the dial reacts in that
    very clear way, it presumably has been an all original Mk. 11 dial in former
    times which was reduced in thickness and got that notch to fit to another
    watch and was spoiled that way. If it doesn't such a clear reaction it is not
    only spoiled, it is simply fake.

    Regards

    Th. Koenig

  • Apprentice
    20 Nov 2018, 9:52 p.m.

    Thanks for your thorough response, it is magnetic.

    We had the dial scrutinized along with an original IWC mk 11 dial and could
    not find anything, apart from the hand and maybe the T. Of course the obvious
    milling on the back and there is still lumens on 9 and 6 not much but enough
    for us to believe that this was a mk 11. The milling and the notch really
    threw us aback, and had us thinking Why in all that is sacred would you do
    something like that...

    For fun here's a picture of the above mentioned dial dangling on a kitchen
    magnet.pic 90
    clockwise