Bubbleback - mild radium burn

[104peterb]

Hi all,

How bothered are collectors about mild radium burn on a dial where the hands have sat for a while?

I notice that in some of the pictures that get uploaded here from some collectors their watches show dials with radium burn which I assume doesn't bother people so much?

Cheers,

Peter

[andromeda160]

I'm not a huge fan of patina/aging of dials. It's better than a redial, and prestine examples are outrageous, so I think it's more a lesser of the 2 evils sorta thing. I know i'd be less bothered by radium burn than a redial, but nothing beats a clean dialed BB.

[R.W.T.]

It's a fact of life. Very often the watches sat up in drawers with broken staffs.

Depending on the dial...the slight discoloration is not gonna cost you any money...in a sale.

And don't think it's just radium....I have a friend who let his 16800 matte sit up for about 15 years and the tritium burned the dial.