While watching Dr. No with my 8 and 6-year old sons yesterday, I saw something I'd never noticed before. At one point in the film, Bond has a geiger counter and tests it by pointing it at his Rolex. It clicks as he expected, and he explains to Quarrel that it was triggered by the luminous dial in his watch. Now I have worked with tritium, and with geiger counters, and I know that tritium does not set off geiger counters. The low-energy beta particles are not strong enough to even penetrate the layer of dead skin we all carry. Radium, on the other hand, is easily detectable with standard geiger counters.
So, all you Rolexers out there...did Rolex Submariners of the late 50s and early 60s have radium lume? Or is this just a little error in the film.