It looks nice but I wouldn't be surprised to hear it has had a re-lume, it matches a little too well. That serial ( is it 22825?) seems early for a -65. SP101 has it as a -64 serial, though it is close to the -65 range.
That wouldn't help. These have tritium lume which would be virtually inert by now as it has been, what 5 half lives. Both relume paint and original tritium would give a near nil result.
According to the ilovemyspeedmaster interpretation of the MWO tables, it could be any of those references.
ILMS is using amongst others the extract for my 22.827m -65 model which is dated April 1966. Have just looked at MWO which has the -65 starting at 22.825m so in fact this serial may be fine, just one of the first. It is yet again annoying that the extracts don't have the year iteration on them!
One and only thought from that first photo: it's a heavily prepared watch. That makes me instantly suspicious of everything about it. I doubt all the parts started life together though most are correct. The endlinks have been filed down to fit the case ... but the more I look at it, the more I think that it's been done quite well. I dunno. If that was the look I was going for, I'd be tempted to save a chunk of change and buy a FOIS instead.
Is this a test? It's not your James Hyman relume watch is it? I know you have a pair of those shaved end links too, or did have.
Thanks! Lume is the same colour as the OP one, that was what made me think of it, but yours like mine has slight variation in the hand fade which seems pretty typical.
Like my first thought, within a second of seeing the first picture was that it's likely a relume. Firstly the colour and consistency is so uniform, but perhaps more importantly, the shade just isn't one that I associate with tritium from the period. It just doesn't look like a watch that is all original and has aged naturally to give this look. It looks like a watch that's been prepped to look like this.
It looks very nice and even, but what I try to base my judgment on when I can't hold a watch is how similar does that lume compare to other examples of that same reference? And I've never seen another Ed White with a lume looking like that. To be honest it wouldn't stop me from getting it, but the price must be coherent, and most of the time it isn't.
The OP is curiously quiet so I wonder if he is either a) the seller, b) a prospective buyer or more likely bearing in mind the lume shot c) the recent buyer hoping for affirmation. Come on @dmgreen11 join the discussion and give us more info about the circumstances.