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Those are not Tritium tubes on the lume. I think you may have meant T-25.Is that t50 or t100 tubes?
looked like CAPELAND 3 HAND TO ME...nice prefer 3 hand to chronograph which I have seen plenty...I think this is the 1st 3 hand Have seen...I seen you happy about junk yard scores NOIZE...this is really cool find ...not sure on if the value is ROAD SHOW...sifting trash for treasure...score(In my best Grey Poupon voice)
Why sir, is that a Capeland you are wearing?
Very nice pickup.
those are thick polished SS hands and markers to act as encased channels for C3 lume...not sure after it is applied thick looks like plastic ...it's paint...with half-life should glow...i am sure it is post 1973 watch...i think radiation in watches stopped in 1973...think radium girls now on netflix... I knew the ending of RADIUM GIRLS...sad so I passed on the flickThose are not Tritium tubes on the lume. I think you may have meant T-25.
those are thick polished SS hands and markers to act as encased channels for C3 lume...not sure after it is applied thick looks like plastic ...it's paint...with half-life should glow...i am sure it is post 1973 watch...i think radiation in watches stopped in 1973...think radium girls now on netflix... I knew the ending of RADIUM GIRLS...sad so I passed on the flick
real find NOIZE thx 4 postingThe Radium paint girls some doomed to death in factory
Very tragic stories about these women. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/the-forgotten-factory-girls-killed-by-radioactive-poisoning/The forgotten factory girls killed by radioactive poisoning By Kate Moore 14 JUNE 2016 • 9:44AM Ordinary women in 1920s America. All they...watchintyme.com
The Radium Girls and the Quest for Workplace Safety
Published on Jul 8, 2019 Discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, the element radium was thought to be a miracle substance that could change the world. But little was known about the effects of long-term exposure to radium when thousands of women were employed painting luminous paint made...watchintyme.com