16800 dial check

[kreyke]

Hello everyone,

I have been collecting modern watches for a couple of years now. A year back, I chanced upon 16800 with a spider dial. I wasn’t familiar with vintage watch collecting yet but I decided to take a dive after doing a quick price check on the bay.

Within the past year, I became more focused on collection vintage watches, mainly omega. I have recently purchased a black light and decided to test all my watches. To my surprise, the lume on my Rolex does not light up. The only thing that lights up is the pearl on the modern replacement bezel.

I did a search online and I found that some 5513 have stopped glowing. But 16800s are relatively recent and the tritium on them should still be glowing under direct black light.

So now I’m suspecting that it has been relumed but the lume looks good to my inexperienced eye under magnification. So I’m hoping you guys could weigh in. The pawn shop I purchased it from is quite reputable and they have sold it to me as an original dial.

Could it be a relumed? I did suspect perhaps a service dial but then would it be labelled with Swiss T<25?




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[kreyke]

Unfortunately, I have less than 10 post so I am unable to post the photos. Is there a way I could post the photo or upload it directly? I am currently using Tapatalk. Will a desktop allow me to do so?


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[TimeToGo]

Based on the age of your watch, the dial should not light up..

[doramas]

Photos.

Normally, it does not turn on

[CPRWATCH]

Pictures are probably worth at least a thousand words . So please post pictures then we can see what your talking about .