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So a broad arrow re dial was used to show the watch had the Radium removed?




Unbelievably lucky to find this rare omega thin arrow 53 I bought it from an RAF chap that’s had it 50 years he found it when he first joined the raf as personnel and was a baggage handler when the planes came in, he and his friends used to rush under the rollers where they would find money valuables that fell from the bags over time, one day he found what looked like a big coin and it was in fact this beauty, it must of been sitting there for years as these were produced for raf or air crew in 1953.
There were only 5,900 produced but most were brought back to have new dial as the radium wasn’t accepted no more so these few that survived became rare because they escaped call back and they say only a couple of hundred exist today, I’m over the moon 😊😊😊 ps it’s needs a new Crystal maybe new crown and probably a service but it seems to be keeping time.