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Hi all,

This is a dumb question about this Seamaster 2846/2848 dial. Based on the dial text and marker alignment, it pretty clearly repainted. The text looks bad, the markers don’t line up with the tick marks, no "swiss made", etc. I’m a low...

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Hi all,

This is a dumb question about this Seamaster 2846/2848 dial. Based on the dial text and marker alignment, it pretty clearly repainted. The text looks bad, the markers don’t line up with the tick marks, no "swiss made", etc. I’m a lowly a Speedmaster guy who doesn't deal with this stuff much, so I was curious about one thing:

The lume doesn’t look natural to me, but the dial measures 5.19 µSv/h (0.52 mSv/h) on the Geiger counter—so, it's radium, right? I was expecting a lower…

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