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Omegaboy1990

·Jul 25, 2024

Hi Folks,
I recently picked up this 165.014. I’ve been told it’s a 1963 straight handed transitional model and likely tritium lume. Can someone help confirm that everything looks good and if they know if this would be radium model or tritium?

 

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Knudsen1971

·Jul 26, 2024

It is tritium for sure. The dial is from previous reference.

 

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Omegaboy1990

·Jul 26, 2024

Knudsen1971

It is tritium for sure. The dial is from previous reference.

Thank you for responding 😀 I have been here a long time however now need some help. Do you beleive the dial would also be tritium aswell then? When I have new looking at pictures of other radium watches it looks like radium. Does this mean that it has been frankened together? I ask this as I was told it was a rare 1963 straight hand transitional model

 

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Omegaboy1990

·Aug 4, 2024

Can anyone else help out?

 

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SOG53

·Aug 4, 2024

Shine UV light on it in dark.
Radium will light up and fade almost immediately.
Tritium will light up and fade more slowly, over 30-40 seconds.
Also a Geiger counter will detect radium rather easily.

 

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Davidt

·Aug 5, 2024

Knudsen1971

It is tritium for sure. The dial is from previous reference.

What makes you say it’s tritium? I’d expect that dial to be radium.

 

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Omegaboy1990

·Aug 25, 2024

I’ve been reading up and I am 100% sure it’s radium. The lume is grit like in the dagger plots and it tests 4 times more radioactive then background radiaton.