Are the lume dots removed?

Hi,

Quick question. I noticed that the markers has no lume dots present. Did Omega make some of these beefy lugs without the dots or did someone have them removed? The hands has lume as you can see. I have only seen these with lume both on the hands and markers before.

In my experience, lume would have been placed in the grove at the top of each dagger markerS on these Old Seamasters - but never say never with Omega

But did you try UV/ black light to see if there is any trace of lume remaining?

Sometimes the lume just crumbles and falls off and when that happens, sometimes the watchmaker just removes the rest of it.

Here is my Radium lumed, cal 501 from 1958 in a 18K gold Dennison Cased Seamaster - you can still see the lume in the dagger markers

Yes, that was my thought too that Omega may have manufactured it like this. But im not convinced. I cant check it my self because this example is not in my possession :/ At least not yet... I want to be sure that its complete before or if its worth buying even if the lume is missing?

To me it looks like it is not there but i cant tell for sure by just this picture. Photos can sometimes play tricks on you 🤔

Update: Today i had the opportunity to look at the watch and hold it in my hands personally. I purchased an uv flashlight. I shone with the flashlight over the dial, the dots shimmered up and showed their presence👍Tried to take pictures of it but i failed, the scratched up crystal and reflections of light made that impossible. I took a regular photo just to show it in regular lighting. The smudgy looking dial made me a little disappointed as i hoped for a glossier look...

It's pretty normal for a watch this old to not have any working radioactive lume. Every radioactive element has a certain half life i.e. after this set amount of time, half of the sample size will be decayed by then.

E.g. if your watch used radium (I suspect isotope radium-228) then after 6.7 years only half of the material would still be radioactive (i.e. emitting light). After another 6.7 years, another half of the previous half would be gone. This goes on forever. If we assume the watch to be roughly 60 years, there should only be about 0.2% of the radioactive lume left. Conclusion: It doesn't emit any light or only a little bit for a few seconds. Go into a dark room and try again.

Edit: Misread your previous post for "it didn't emit any light". You can discard my comment.