Your budget is whatever you paid for all your watches combined.
For me it would be the Laco Flieger Pro hand-winding no logo.
Your budget is whatever you paid for all your watches combined.
For me it would be the Laco Flieger Pro hand-winding no logo.
Is that radium paint I spy
Might be! I know there are current models produced, but not sure if the older ones were also luminous.
So long as the crystal is intact, should be safe enough
You do always get some radiation from Radon gas diffusion. Enough to make it illegal to import into the EU now without expensive testing, still orders of magnitude below background radiation.
The people who really suffered from it were the women who painted the dial.
They put the radium paint brush tip in their mouth to fine it to a point easier. The radium salt went through their oral issues and was incorporated into their jaw as radium acts like calcium, which got blasted apart from alpha radiation.
With an intact crystal, you mostly get some beta radiation beaming out of the watch face and some light gamma radiation emanating from the watch like a bubble.
I bought an old aircraft instrument gauge today, now the radium in that makes the Geiger counter tick a bit more than a wrist watch!
Good to know!