Revisiting an old hobby
Hello from Scotland.
I recently re-awakened an interest from my youth in watches and clocks. Strangely the catalyst was searching for a replacement hand for a Starrett dial indicator that I picked up for pennies on ebay and which I though might be useful for leveling the bed on my 3d printer. It was missing the dial hand, which looked very like a watch second hand, so that led to a search for a suitable donor watch. Needless to say I then got distracted by the vast array of old time pieces
I'm about to try to match the lume colour on the hands of a "Montine" 17 jewel dress watch.
I'm not going to touch the lume on the dial, 'cos I don't want to ruin the dial, so I'm doing a few experiments with "dollar store" acrylic paints, my selection of cheap Chinese lumes and my date expired Westfalia lumes to see if I can get a close match with what is currently on the dial.
I could just mix up some shiny new lume, but it would probably look way too clean.
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