Black Bay 54 - a true vintage tool watch?

[bohren]

Originally Posted by douglasf13

To me, this is the one that gets a pass, since it’s a close reproduction of the original.

Yeah! Exactly my feelings regarding the rivets. I wrote in another thread that the black BB58 is more a reminiscence to its ancestor, while the BB54 is more like a only slightly modernised return of the historic one.

[douglasf13]

Originally Posted by Notepad12

So it was gold plated Radium, not brass?

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Radium is what they used for lume. Hands would have been some coated metal alloy (maybe brass.) Brass was also used for the bezel (coated) and dial. Real gilt dials aren't printed gold, but, rather, show the brass dial underneath in relief, so that's a big difference between the originals and the BB 54.