For your perusal.

 

How much of a franken is this going to be?

Genuine dial?

Genuine case?

 

The question stems from trying to select and purchase a gen dial. It’s a 9401 Mercedes service dial. The question for me is two fold - do the dial feet fit a gen 2461 series movement and would this type of service dial have been used on the earlier, no date, Mercedes models.

But to answer your question, the goal is as gen as possible.

 

Genuine 7016 case?

 

No case yet - it’s a slow but steady search.

 

No case yet - it's a slow but steady search.

Franken - OK

Fake - No Bueno

ETA 2451 is the base caliber for Tudor 2461.

Spot the holes for the feet in the plates above?

 

Yes, helpful documents. If I had to estimate, it’s close to 11/41. I’ll have to overlay a dial in photoshop to be more accurate.
I haven’t been able to find an example of a 7016 with triangle indexes at 3/6/9 - so even if the 24 series has the same dial feet locations as the 27 series, it may not be a match meant to be.
I’ll qualify that with I understand the 4 basic dial variants typical of a 7016. What I was hoping for was this particular service dial may have been used when servicing a merc hand 7016. Wishful thinking.

 

Hi there,

If I had to estimate, it's close to 11/41.

Well estimated: 11.1min, 41.1min/9.5mm

Regards, Roland Ranfft

 

Thanks Roland. Have you considered inputting dial feet locations on your movement archives?