Vintage Black Dials Only! Lets see them!

Eldridge · Mar 10, 2023

My new purchase with missing hands but a black dial

Scarecrow Boat · Mar 10, 2023

This is more of a charcoal black but still 😀

Risto · Mar 10, 2023

Black exotic racing dial Nivada Taravana.

river9 · Mar 10, 2023

Bulova (serial L8 so it is essentially a 1958 watch. Case 10k Rolled Gold Plated, movement should be a Cal 10P, sorry my guess on caliber since I did not yet open entirely this front loader case but just bezel and crystal)

Plees · Mar 11, 2023

My Rotary radium lume black dialed surprise. It came with a lot of watch making tools. Contains a AS 1686 movement.

river9 · Mar 12, 2023

Plees
My Rotary radium lume black dialed surprise. It came with a lot of watch making tools. Contains a AS 1686 movement.

Nice black dial @Plees
I wonder if is radium in lume materials responsible for this kind of white spots? My Omega black dial shown below is a 18M serial, ca 1960, so quite sure lume is radium, this ref 14390 dial contains also lot of white spots like you Rotary.

Fallout Boy · Mar 12, 2023

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Plees · Mar 12, 2023

river9
Nice black dial @Plees
I wonder if is radium in lume materials responsible for this kind of white spots? My Omega black dial shown below is a 18M serial, ca 1960, so quite sure lume is radium, this ref 14390 dial contains also lot of white spots like you Rotary.

It probably is. Could be due to particles letting loose from the lumed parts. But it could also be due to moisture ingress, which causes wear on the dialpaint. Nice Bulova by the way👍