Am often intrigued why it is that some vintage watches display greenish hands versus their marker plots.

Different material must have been used originally, or different hand suppliers were use on the watch itself.

Either way, please show off your odd bedfellows.
Here is a cheap Ebay pick up I caught. Cant see any reason as to why someone decided to relume the hands, therefore will claim this to be original, with hands fading over time, to create a green v pumpkin marker look.


Am keen to see if there was any trends with brands.
Green hands in particular, but will open this up to just lighter hands to markers also.
Green markers and hands also accepted.

 

(not mine) Better pics of this watch were posted here by the seller ... but this is the first example that jumps to mind ...



https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auc...ega-speedmaster-ref-105-002-62-sc-a-stainless

(not mine) Then we have :



https://omegaforums.net/threads/a-c...ster-300s-same-but-slightly-different.100099/

I would speculate that your theories are correct (different manufacturers) as well as they started their lives slightly different shades too (and have patinated/darkened differently as a result).

 

Here is my 809 all black from 1963 with tritium markers and hands

 

Have noticed many of those old skindivers have green lume, either on the hands or both hands and dial (but never just the dial).

Skin Diver thread (has many photos of green lumed examples)

My own skin divers - a Timex Red Ball,



And a Cronel



And this no-name I pulled out of an estate sale a couple months back (now rehomed)



We're also starting to see some watches using this greenish hue for fauxtina, like the Yema Superman 63 reissue of their first skin diver.

 

Did somebody call for mismatched lume colors!?

How about a little pumpkin and green together-



I love when people start calling relume when they see hands and dials with mismatched lume colors- it happened- often- and they can age differently. Yes, sometimes it will be a bad relume, but it’s not categorical. I’m tired of seeing people opining on watch verification threads about lume color when they clearly have never handled or owned a vintage watch- or have never owned one long enough to have actually watched the lume chance color over the years.
I stumbled on a thread here from about 2 years ago where someone claimed that a watch was a relume because there was no green radium....if that were a current thread I would have blow that thing up with a few hundred pics from my own collection...then trawled the web for a few thousand more.

 

Another example to add:

 

Quit stuntin on us!

 

Adding another.

 

My Scubapro 500 has mismatched lume and they are known for this trait. The CWC SBS has taken on a minty green

 

early -mid 70's 145.022 are known to be a light green.

 

I’m sure over at TRF they are breaking out their Pantone charts to assess the exact year of hands and dial to verify authenticity.