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Any one else have some "Hot" watches?

Got a Geiger counter recently so I could test radium dials. Pretty much already knew what watches of mine had radium. Interesting to just confirm it t...
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Vintage IWC w explorer style Arabics
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☢ 60s Gigandet with Radium Dial

A new flea market find from last weekend. This is the first time I've seen the "RA Swiss Made RA" on a dial.
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1928 Hamilton Barrel Watch with original box and advert - which is a great read. It suggests that a man needs to carry both a “strap watch” (wrist wat...
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Radium and Vintage Watches

We were watching a video the other night and it talked about the Radium poisoning from the workers ingestimg radium as they painted the dials. With hu...
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Any tips to getting good pictures of inky black dials outside?
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Watch Meetup this evening. Bringing the Doxa and a watchroll of misfits.
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Hot Watch ☢️

My father’s watch. Found while cleaning out his old truck. He thinks he got it at the completion of his carpentry apprenticeship in the 1950s. I could...
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Anyone else concerned about radium dial watches?

Last year I purchased a grail watch the Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Aqua Lung. However I don't wear it as often as I think I should, especially considerin...
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Angelus 1940 cal.210 mini chrono

One of my latest projects the Angelus 210 mini chronograph from 1940. In a wounderfull condition never polished with original lume.
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