Horological Meandering

Here's a close-up of the material. Yes, some of it is radioactive. But old. Maybe 20 years, or more. 

On the new material, you can see from the lid of the tins or bottles what color the lume inside is. I didn't pour any out as it's $25-50 per bottle.

So here is the set-up for the photos. Please use the Seiko in the back for actual times, as none of the others are set or fully-wound.

There's a little mixing cup next to the orange Ochs, in the front. It's where you mix up the powdered lume with glue.

First shot, at about 4 o'clock. I used the Sony's automatic "twilight" setting which takes 6 shots and combines them. The Ochs is astonishing here.

About 2 minutes later

another minute (you see I am not waiting 6 hours; I haven't the patience)

A bit longer, it's clear that I don't need to wait very long for the lume to fade away

And on

Notice that by now the old radium lume in the tins is almost faded, but the newer material in the bottle is still very bright

I did no processing whatsoever in these shots, except to decrease the file sizes (PuristsPro software does resizing too - and more?)

After 8-9 minutes, the newest bottle of A&F luminous material seems WAY brighter than the rest. The Seiko in the back is still doing great.

The distance from lens to materials was about 1 foot in all those shots from the tripod.

I decided to take a few more. Here's a new, 4-inch, hand-held shot of the Ball, the lume bottle, and the Gerber.