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Hudson
Senior in highschool and aspiring horologist, I work at a jewelry store and collecting
Minneapolis
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Last active: 11 months ago
It's not worth much. But it belonged to your Uncle it's priceless.
Here is a good read on radium dial watches. There was an issue back into the 1920s and I think it all came to an end 1937 regarding radium exposure and women in factories painting watch dials with radium paint. The were called Radium Girls. There's some horological history with that watch. I wouldn't open the watch up for any reason. If it needs work you need to find a watchsmith who knows how to deal with the radium dust.
Nice looking watch.
https://wscrocketry.com/scientific-miscellany/element-collection/radium/
Cheers!
That was a Sears & Roebuck watch.