Sticker Came off hour marker

[Mercury]

I have a Rolex Explorer II and I noticed the lume sticker came off the 9 hour marker. How would a newbie go about fixing this problem?

[fakemaster]

Well if it's a sticker you're already in trouble. If it's a marker then you just take it apart and glue it back on. Not necessarily something you want to try yourself first time out.

[gioarmani]

If you're speaking of the white lume bit separating from the top of the round, metal hour-marker, if you know how to pull the movement you can take the sharp tip of a small sewing-needle and apply just a molecule of super-glue then press the lume back into place on the marker.

Sometimes this happens with lume (rarely, though) when too much varnish is used in the mixture; the polished metal used on hour-markers doesn't exactly have the ideal adhesion quality to begin with.