Last find of the year : seamaster 300 big triangle

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Pianist

·Dec 30, 2019

Ending the year with a no-date big triangle is not bad !
Does somebody know why the indexes are green ? This is not the first one I see with this kind of patina (military versions for example).
I have relumed the hands (tritium was damaged).

 

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bags1971

·Dec 30, 2019

Nice

 

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joe band

·Dec 31, 2019

no shame in that one... congrats

 

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watchlovr

·Dec 31, 2019

What a peach.
This lime green smooth type of lume seems to be specific to these 69/70 BT examples, as you say, many of them military issue.
No idea why, probably just the type of tritium mix used by a particular dial manufacturer at a particular time.
In my experience the hand lume nearly always is a mismatch on these, in a mustard colour and much more grainy in texture.
Here’s mine;

 

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jaguar11

·Dec 31, 2019

So nice!!! Wear in the very best of health.

 

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roleex

·Dec 31, 2019

Can I say looks like it’s a service dial?

 

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watchlovr

·Dec 31, 2019

roleex

Can I say looks like it’s a service dial?

You can say what you like.

1. You don’t get BT service dials
2. Service dials are not marked for Tritium

Can I say you don’t know what you’re talking about?

Edited: Dec 31, 2019

 

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roleex

·Dec 31, 2019

watchlovr

You can say what you like.

1. You don’t get BT service dials
2. Service dials are not marked for Tritium

Can I say you don’t know what you’re talking about?

Oki. Merci. Bonne année

 

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Deltatango

·Jan 1, 2020

Beautiful find !

 

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cell1010

·Jan 3, 2020

Very nice find indeed. I can understand why anyone who’s not to familiar with that specific model thinks it’s a service dial. It obviously isn’t but the texture of the lume and the overall condition of the dial don’t look to be from ~69. So again huge congrats they don’t come very often as beautiful as that.