Patent ID: 8917579

Claim:
A method for manufacturing a timepiece dial comprising: a microlens layer preparing process for preparing a microlens layer having a first surface and a second surface being opposite to the first surface, the microlens layer including a plurality of microlenses arranged on the first surface in an orderly fashion as viewed in a planar view, the second surface being flat, the microlens layer being integrally formed as a one-piece, unitary member; and a decorative layer forming process for forming a decorative layer on the second surface of the microlens layer, the decorative layer being formed as an independent member from the microlens layer, the decorative layer including a repeating design having a plurality of constituent units in an orderly fashion, the microlens layer and the decorative layer being superimposed as viewed in the planar view, each of the constituent units of the repeating design of the decorative layer being flat; the constituent units of the repeating design having an arrangement, which is the same arrangement as the microlenses, compressed or expanded in an in-plane predetermined direction of the decorative layer, P ML (μm) being a pitch of the microlenses, P R (μm) being a pitch of the constituent units of the repeating design, the timepiece dial having a region, in the planar view of the timepiece dial, a value of P ML −P R being gradually increased from a center of the timepiece dial to a circumference part in the region, the constituent units of the repeating design being spaced apart from each other on the second surface of the microlens layer such that the second surface of the microlens layer exposes through a spacing defined between an adjacent pair of the constituent units of the repeating design.