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This particular era of Speedy I find has more variability in how the hands and lume look color wise than any other, I've seen dark, white, green, yellow, brown and everything in between, dial lume on that one looks a bit messy, but the photos aren't the best either, some of the originally applied lume is quite messy, but that's a bit excessive.
The hands are so uniformly grotty as to suggest a relume but then why would a relumer pick such a grungy looking compound? I think that watch in general looks pretty honest and original but I can't say I like the hand colour personally. I'd take a nice relumed set over those if original any time to be be honest.
The price doesn't sound too bad but note the crystal looks cracked near the 6 so probably needs replacing. I'd wear that but I'd consider a hand swap in the short to medium term.
I strongly doubt that those hands are in their original condition. At the least, they have been repainted, IMO. That said, I think the price is good. If the hands bother you, you can have them relumed.