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Posted on March 16, 2023 at 19:20:39
Jim Pearce
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 I was expecting the Calvin Klein High Noon watch I bought, which is advertised as having "luminous hands", to display actual luminescence at night. But not so apparently.

Or...is it because I haven't worn it in daylight (to charge it) and given it sufficient time to start glowing at night?

 

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RE: ping RGA (and any other watch guys)..., posted on March 16, 2023 at 21:43:23
RGA
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 From my understanding lume watches need to be charged by sunlight or a special lume flashlight like this one for $7. But from what I have read - the sun works the best.

But you can't trust the websites - some say the watch has sapphire crystal and they have mineral so I had to take the code and enter that into google to double and triple check.

Also, some lume isn't that strong so you have to check into the lume rating to see how strong it is.

 

the hands are coated in the center..., posted on March 17, 2023 at 05:05:53
Jim Pearce
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 I can remember the look of the coating my father's watch from sixty odd years ago. Too bad I'll never likely wear it enough to charge it.

 

Vintage Luminosity, posted on March 17, 2023 at 05:20:40
Inmate51
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 I have a old Westclox Big Ben alarm clock from the 1940s or so. It has radium paint on the hands, and they still glow in the dark, 80-odd years later. No need to 'charge it up' with sunlight. :)

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Charge it ..., posted on March 17, 2023 at 05:32:49
reelsmith.
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 Hold it close to a bright light for a few seconds. Incandescent works best.

Lume on watches vary greatly, some are like torches and others very dim.

Dean.




reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.


 

RE: Charge it ..., posted on March 17, 2023 at 06:10:11
reelsmith.
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 The lume on my Silberstein was better than many I've had.





Crazy lookin' beast.

Dean.






reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.


 

RE: Vintage Luminosity, posted on March 17, 2023 at 06:16:17
dean_martin
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 don't let it escape the clock. that stuff is dangerous. (see link.) I find the tritium tubes used by makers like Marathon intriguing.

 

Luminox Watches have tritium markers., posted on March 17, 2023 at 06:50:20
srdavis2000
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 I have two SS and one titanium. When new, they glow really well, but over the years, they dim. I have the first one I bought maybe 15 years ago and that one barely glows. Several companies sell knock offs. I am currently using an Apple Watch.

 

RE: Vintage Luminosity, posted on March 17, 2023 at 07:18:00
Oldbean2
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 Ottawa IL is about 45 minutes SW of me, and I'm there a few times per year with my civil war reenactment group. The 'radium girls' always comes up as a topic at living histories and museum days.

A little less than it was 20 years ago, as most of the folks with first-hand experience with victims have passed on. But still quite a few 'my grandparents used to talk about a sister' who was a victim.

Back for a bit again. Ignore me if you like.

 

RE: Vintage Luminosity, posted on March 17, 2023 at 08:25:37
Uncle Mike
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 You jogged my memory of this clean up back in the nineties. A former radium processing plant that went by the wayside with a neighborhood later built up around it. At the time I was working a few blocks away at a school being renovated.

 

RE: Interesting. Thanks for sharing..., posted on March 17, 2023 at 12:02:09
dean_martin
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 one of the "boutique" watch brands issued a limited edition "Radium Girls" version of one of its watches. I had mixed feelings about it. I appreciated the effort to "remember" those affected, but it seemed a little morbid and exploitative to me.

 

RE: Vintage Luminosity, posted on March 17, 2023 at 13:46:49
pictureguy
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 You could NOT get that timepiece across the US / Mexico Border,

My wife received a very small dose of radioactive Iodine. Halflife is about 5.5 days.
Wife went South about 2 weeks AFTER and closed the place down while they determined she was an idiot.
Doc said NOT to cross, but I do not remember his time frame. But 2 halflives AFTER a very small dose and she STILL lit the place up?
EXTREMELY sensitive detectors.....
Too much is never enough

 

right beside the radioactive watch..., posted on March 17, 2023 at 14:49:05
Jim Pearce
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 My father used to keep a rock full of asbestos fibers from his time as controller of an asbestos mine.

 

RE: right beside the radioactive watch..., posted on March 17, 2023 at 14:51:17
Uncle Mike
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 To use a baseball metaphor, he had his bases covered.

 

RE: Vintage Luminosity, posted on March 17, 2023 at 14:57:23
Inmate51
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 Funny you should mention that. It just sits on my dresser as a decorative piece, and hasn't worked since forever. It was my grandparent's clock. A section of the paint of one hand broke off many decades ago, before I inherited it. I suppose the piece is still inside somewhere. I've always thought about opening it up to find the broken-off piece and glue it back into place - using tweezers, of course.

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RE: Vintage Luminosity, posted on March 17, 2023 at 15:05:08
Inmate51
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 That's good to know, although, as I wrote in reply to dean_martin, it just sits on my dresser as a decorative piece, and hasn't worked since forever. And I don't plan on moving out of the country any more.

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RE: Vintage Luminosity, posted on March 17, 2023 at 18:28:25
pictureguy
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 Might be worthwhile to get it fixed, before all the real watchmakers expire?

My brother, who was difficult to wake, used a pair of Electric Range Clocks sitting on inverted pie tins.
Sounded like a prison break and DID succeed in getting him going.....

these were wind-up 'tick tock' types.....
Too much is never enough

 

RE: ping RGA (and any other watch guys)..., posted on March 17, 2023 at 23:45:55
pictureguy
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 The Glow from my Seiko Orange Monster is good for several hours.....in a DARK room....
I'll wake at 0300 or 0400 and see the glow on my nightstand.....
Too much is never enough

 

A kid in high school had a crazy radioactive watch, posted on March 18, 2023 at 10:52:41
JDK
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 The science teacher was testing our watches with a giegercounter.
He told this one boy that it would be best if he took his watch off at night ;-)


Keep Your Hands Clean,
John K

 

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