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The second watch I bough (£4.50) was a 1930's Emus Muller. It didn't run when I got it and now it does - albeit rather slow (-2 hours/day), still that's better than -24 hours/day!

The dial is aluminium and has quite a bit of corrosion on. Is there a way to treat this?

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Sorry if I'm all questions at the moment - only been doing this three weeks. Hopefully at some point I'll be able to start answering some.

 

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It could be that there's another layer above the paint... Some had some sort of a transparent lacquer like paint above the paint and engravings/indexes/markers/etc.

But yeah, I'm not sure if there's anything you can do about it... If you were able to microscopically smooth the edges then it would be less visible but that's kind of hard to achieve.

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Looks like something is corroding the paint... Short of repainting the dial, i don't see many good options :(

I would try washing it very gently with plain water to remove any possible contaminants, and if the dial survives that, spray a thin layer of lacquer on top to protect/stabilize the remaining paint. No matter what, it will not look new I'm afraid.

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Shame.

I had a minute scrap on the edge to see if it was just a surface depsit, but it's seems to be where the aluminuim cas corroded through the paint layer.

I think you're suggestion of a gentle clean and lacquer are about the only options.

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The second watch I bough (£4.50) was a 1930's Emus Muller. It didn't run when I got it and now it does - albeit rather slow (-2 hours/day), still that's better than -24 hours/day!

 

I’ll apologise in advance...

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That statement really piqued my interest. If my maths is right the watch is now right once every six days, instead of twice a day. So it was technically a more accurate timepiece when it wasn’t working at all... I know, I’m a knob, but I find maths interesting!

 

For the dial issue, what the other people said. Redial, brass based, similar style. Good luck and keep asking the questions, most of us learn as much from the questions other people ask as the ones we do ourselves!

 

 

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