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Old 6 April 2010, 08:42 AM   #9
mike
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Makes it about an 85ish example? If so the original dail/hands set would have been tritium. By now trit. dials have given up the ghost. Re-luming, as mentioned, is a possibility, but tritium won't be used. Rather luminova will be the material. Luminova needs light to activate (unlike the old tritium dials).

Re-luming generally has an impact on value (down) and is not something most collectors like. Another approach would be a service replacement dial. Again value is affected, but perhaps not to the extent re-luming would do.

The fogging sounds like a problem with the seals or crown/stem. Might want to have that checked.

Good luck.
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