12/14/2023 0 Comments Watch hand luminous paintBelow a early Panerai Radiomir ref 3646, below measurements from the back.Īnd up front it’s much higher. I specifically was always interested to see the rate of a untouched original owners Rolex as with them we knew nothing has been done to chance the look / originality. Are these the original hands and has the dial been swapped perhaps?īelow you can see pictures of the radium investigation I made on many different sport Rolex and other watches during the recent years. While analyzing the below 2 photo’s now you notice that the hands do NOT match the rest of the color of the luminous, thus something has happened afterwards before sit went to auction. In both 3 examples we see that the hands have also been chanced during a service by Rolex to later smaller ones, meaning that all 3 of them had a water problem back in the days and the original radium hands where chanced to later tritium ones, hence the different in color of the luminous. This particular SCOC small crown 5508 is almost all over damaged and the grooves have become very deep… And another cracked one. My believe is that the dials have been stored for a long time at a dry place and that this has cracked the surface… Yet another example of cracked surface. Moisture and condens will be sucked up by the luminous and make it chance color to dark and ugly, then it will destroy the top layer of the dial.įrom the front hardly visible but once you turn the dial slightly you notice the infrastructure of cracks. Again, the luminous on the dial and hands, are the condition meter showing you what happened over the years with the watch. So if moisture enters the case, it will damage the surface and leave little black stains on the lume dots, as you can see below. 1964 – 1967, The new generation tritium luminous got added on glossy dials, signing chanced from “Swiss” to “Swiss – T revue-watch-around-herbst-2015-winter-2016-leuchten-in-der-nacht-apzīelow a Zeller Stylograph, the tool to apple the luminous to the dial by hand….1963 – 1964, “Transitional” underline of which Rolex switched from Radium to Trtium, delivered dials are “swiss” signed but laminated with tritium.
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