Took the scenic route to work 🤙🏽
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Discussion
Nice. Are those tritium tubes?
Tritium stopped being unused in the late 70s. Believe it’s a more modern lume material
Oh I thought Ball still uses them in their watches.
Mostly super luminova.
It can be different colors, but if it comes up on a Geiger counter, Swiss stay away from it to avoid liability if you get “sick”
Okay now I have learned more about radioactive luminescense than I ever cared to know. Tritium was once used as a coating that was harmful. Now tritium is used as a gas that activates its phosphorescent tube containers. Most coated hands and dials now use Super LumiNova. There was a some transition in 1998 from Tritium to SuperLum, and that is what most manufacturers use, and I have no idea which one the Oak uses.
I agree for all practical purposes, like a watch.
the radiation it emits is minuscule and insignificant, but the history of why they stopped using it far and wide remains.
Some of the new stuff is great, but it’s not the “always glowing” stuff it used to be industry wide.
I guess it’s just the big brands that stopped touching it.
There’s a infamous story about someone suing Rolex for giving them cancer, which is why if you send in an old watch, they re-dial it to confiscate the tritium versions, devaluing all their vintage pieces.
Always