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Originally Posted by MitchSteel
You can certainly try leaving it outside, however, I've done that( leaving it outside in the sun for nearly 4 months straight), with Zero effect.I thought prolonged UV exposure will certainly fade the insert, but, nothing,zero. 
Maybe a couple of years, maybe more?  |
I would tend to agree. That insert was on the GMT for about 30 years as an almost-daily-wearer and you can see the resulting fade, or lack thereof. The red has faded but the blue almost none. OTOH, the original fat-font insert that's on the watch now shows much more fade and it was on the watch for only about 10 years until about a year ago. It was lost for a few years while working in the yard, then found, so it sat out there in the elements unprotected. At the time I purchased the newer bezel around 1980 the watchmaker told me the "new" bezels didn't fade as much as the "old," so there must've been a change in the dye/paint formula at some point in between.