14060 Questions

[swish77]

This is very easy to solve:

Buy a cheap blacklight/UV flashlight and shine it on your dial/hands in the dark. That will tell you immediately whether you have a tritium or luminova dial/hands. They glow differently.

Under the blacklight, the tritium will light up white-ish and the glow will quickly fade. The luminova will light up greenish and very brightly and stay that way for a while. There is no ambiguity with this test.

For comparison, here's my (former) tritium 14060, also a U serial (U5380XX).

[sillo]

Originally Posted by swish77

This is very easy to solve:

Buy a cheap blacklight/UV flashlight and shine it on your dial/hands in the dark.

If I get around to picking one up today I'll post some pics.

[sillo]

For hopefully the final test of what's on the dial...

Under black light 16570, 14060, 16700 (N serial)



Immediately after turning the light off



9 minutes later



Camera was just on auto/no flash so settings varied slightly between the two dark pictures

[Rolessor82]

Great thread Sean!

Thank you

[XavierM]

Hmmm I would not bet on tritium for this 14060.
The way it reacts to UV makes me think of weak luminova.

As said above by Springer, it would not mean the dial was touched, just the leftover of Swiss T 25 with the luminova.