The Watch Appreciation Thread - Page 1272

Originally Posted by apropos 


Lemania 15CHT

Breitling Top Time

Longines 30CH

Originally Posted by in stitches 

middle is my fave.

Originally Posted by tacobender 

Treated myself to an early birthday gift. A new to me Bruguet type xx

Originally Posted by tacobender 

Treated myself to an early birthday gift. A new to me Bruguet type xx Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)

Originally Posted by Mr. Moo 

Yup.

Originally Posted by in stitches 

what a generous gift !

Originally Posted by tacobender 

Lol, bought it last week, birthday is in two weeks, trying not too think how much OT I have to work for the remainder of the year to pay for it.

Originally Posted by in stitches 

worth it. who cares. just wear it while pulling the OT. will be a lovely way of keeping track of the hours.

Originally Posted by Coldcava 

I think we'll all die from the Saphir Renomat / Renovateur fumes before the glow in the dark hands on our watches get us.

Originally Posted by Mr. Moo 

Interesting bit about watch lume that I ran across on another forum:

"Actually there are studies that show that wearing a tritium lume watch is detectable in your urine. In addition, the problem with radium lume in old watches is that the substrate crumbles leaving radioactive dust which can leak out, especially if you open the watch as many WIS do and make its way into your lungs through breathing. from whence it may make its way into your bones, displacing calcium and happily spewing out beta radiation for the next 1600 years (to half life).

Now you can say what you want about 'safe doses' of radiation but the risk of starting a cancer is, as far as I understand it, both cumulative and probabilistic. In other words the more exposure you have the more 'tickets' you buy and the more tickets you buy the more likely you are to get 'lucky'. Now I know that there are dietary, environmental and genetic components, but these are just modifiers.

In short, if you happen to know for certain that a certain gene on the short arm of your 17th chromosome is doing a really sharklike job then you can gamble in the radiation lottery.

If not, or if the gnomic sentence above means nothing to you, then it really isn't worth the risk."