201a Lume Color

[Martyd3]

I getting ready to lume my FGD 201a dial. Are these pics a good representation as to what the dial lume looks like (being darker than the hands)?

[Watchmeister]

Yes. For several reasons- not the least of which is the hands have a base coat of white paint underneath the lume.

[dluddy]

There are some dials where the varnish applied caused the tritium to darken making a mis-match with the hands (non-matching)

There are others where the tritium on both dial and hands patina's nicely together (Matching)

Your picture above reflects an accurate matching dial patina although the hands look non-matching.

I prefer matching to the non-matching but it's a preference.

Some non-matching dials are very yellow. Hard to get it wrong since there is much variation.

Here was mine done by The Zigmeister in genuine Tritium

[Eton]

Love it D!

[gianton]

I getting ready to lume my FGD 201a dial. Are these pics a good representation as to what the dial lume looks like (being darker than the hands)?

To me looking great as is mate!

[Watchmeister]

Don brings up the other thing I forgot. There was no consistency when and where Panerai used varnish which pretty drastically changes color.