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Originally Posted by lee fowler
A UV lamp is your friend!
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x100000000. It can't tell you everything, but it can tell you a lot.
You want a uniform white-ish green appearance under UV on the dial and hands tritium that vanishes when you pull the light away, except for some '66-'67 batches of sports Rolexes and Daytonas, which can glow a little after removing the UV.
Also, as Linesiders says above, that waffle texture is a great sign that the lume is original. I've yet to see a re-lumed dial that has that, although who knows what a skilled re-lumer could do nowadays.