11-23-2015, 12:19 AM
Before you think I'm totally crazy, I sold off about 15 watches in the last month or so....
So here's a couple new ones I bought.
1955 Elgin Surf-love the dial on this one
Early 60's Lord Elgin Thin Thin-has the American made/designed 760 automatic movement in it.
1954 Elgin Windsor
1957 Lord Elgin Glencove-Elgin described this as part of their Niteglo series, where the back of the hands were coated with radium, resulting in the hands throwing off a soft glow on the dial.
Most of the original dials get radium burn, so I bought a NOS dial, lumed the hour markers and put lume on the back of the hands. At night, it lights up rather nicely--probably not at bright at radium, but the hands do lightly illuminate the dial.
So here's a couple new ones I bought.
1955 Elgin Surf-love the dial on this one
Early 60's Lord Elgin Thin Thin-has the American made/designed 760 automatic movement in it.
1954 Elgin Windsor
1957 Lord Elgin Glencove-Elgin described this as part of their Niteglo series, where the back of the hands were coated with radium, resulting in the hands throwing off a soft glow on the dial.
Most of the original dials get radium burn, so I bought a NOS dial, lumed the hour markers and put lume on the back of the hands. At night, it lights up rather nicely--probably not at bright at radium, but the hands do lightly illuminate the dial.