Manufacture Year:
1930
Movement Symbol:
Shield
Movement Model:
10AN
Movement Jewels:
15
Movement Serial No.:
605242
Case Serial No.:
0038315
Case shape:
Tonneau
Case Manufacturer:
Bulova
Gender:
Mens
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FifthAvenueRest...
Posted August 31, 2013 - 7:01am
is this the 'ALBERT'?
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Reverend Rob
Posted September 2, 2013 - 7:33pm
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I offer my usual Radium comments:
That stuff was hot back then, as John mentioned, and is just as hot now. The half life of Radium is 1602 years, so not much has been lost, save the decay of the other compounds in the paint that used to flouresce under bombardment of the radiation.
The main danger from this old Radium is ingestion, as the paint flakes and breaks away from the dial and hands. The body sees the Radium as Calcium and imports it to the bones, where it can cause a terrible pain that doesn't let up. The dose for this is unknown, but is considerably more than would be accidentally digested by handling an old watch. The Beta and Gamma particles exit the watch from the front, and are blocked to the rear by the dial and movt. Once the dial has been cleaned, it remains radioactive.
Radium was still used in wristwatch and pocket watch dials until the early 60's and in clocks til the late 70's.
Albert works for me.
Nice radiation burns on the crystal. That stuff was really hot back then.