Got it for $10 at antique flea market-when I saw it my jaw really did almost drop! Dealer was looking crafty until he wanted to pick one of the tins open and I told him not to because it was radioactive.. scared him and he was glad to get rid of it! 10.5-11kCPM through box and tins with radiacode 102.

So I've had this thing around my entire life, but past year and a half ish it's been super close to me on my desk. I didn't notice due to the lack of light on my desk area typically, but a few times when I exposed it to light I noticed a glow that my brain finally suddenly was like "oh shit THAT is fucking radium". Because I've never seen a glow like that.

Have I ingested a fuck ton of radiation over this time being so close to it? Should I start settling my affairs?

Should I move it far away from me? Get it's own case? But... It's been... Quite literally all over the place, in my car between places etc. Not to mention literally decades around it albiet less close contact. I'm trying not to panic. I know I need a geiger counter but that doesn't solve the prior exposure? I thought it was mostly dangerous to directly ingest but people seem quite cautious of these in specific....

I see a bunch of specks on the dial, not sure if it's loose radium or paint peeling but I don't really wanna play around and find out. BUT the find was for about 19 bucks so I couldn't pass it up

I’m all for dusty clocks, but I draw the line when the dust escapes to the outside. Straight to spicy jail

any info on this piece?
broken glass face ☢️

looks to be from 1930s

anyone know what the carving could be on the back? looks like a last name, Aplander? A. Plander? Would love more info!!

Clip on variety

I just found my first watch to add to my collection the other day and did a head count. I now have 10 and some watch hands!

Should I start to worry about radon? My apartment is open and well ventilated so I’m not sure if that makes much of a difference.

I opened this clock to repair the clock (I was unable to because the gear was bent) and realized after my failed attempt it glowed without being exposed to sunlight. Its in a very dark shelf in my room and glows constantly. Should I be concerned that the clock has possible radium paint in it And I accidentally exposed myself.

Edit: Thank you so much to u/Stillegiest for helping me narrow down that this clock is a 1978 Junghans with Promethium 147 dials! Thank you again for everyone’s help identifying this clock as I’m quite new to collecting!

Hello! I’m a new collector to radium paint and radium-based objects! I was at a local flea market and saw this Junghans Cavalier German clock! I don’t know anything about the brand or their background in radium, but when I took my 395nm flashlight to the dials and numbers, they glowed! Seller has it listed at 20 dollars, should I add it to my collection?

Ok so hypothetically… how concerned should I be if I picked this up and it fully opened…. That was about a month ago and I shrugged it off but now I’m thinking about it. The clock was missing the back piece where the mechanism would be it only had the face and the cover. It did have a reading on my Geiger but was low. Because it was already broken I’m assuming someone else opened it before me but i definitely had this thing open near me. I know the main concern is around the build up of gas over time but it wasn’t sealed very well.

Thoughts?

Can someone help me figure out why my new "radium clock" doesn't register on my geiger counter?

Edit: reddit screwed my photo order after posting. First 2 are the real and working radium clock. Next two are of the fake clock.

I bought 3 clocks on Facebook. One seems to not be radium at all. The second one is radium but broken. The third is radium and works!

First 3 photos are of the fake radium clock, my normal background cpm is 27, and it dropped to 27 after being taken off of the real one. It also glows in the dark, and doesn't work.

Next 3 are of the real radium clock that works, notice the differences in the 5s.

The last are of the real but broken radium clock. Then all together.

that is over 9000 CPS on this device

Spotted at a vintage store. This one was too beaten up for my liking but it’s something to watch for while hunting.

This is my first radium piece that isn't a clock or watch.

I was expecting a green glow instead of orange. 😯

Had this clock in the house. Bagged it in a ziplock after this photo when radium suspected and got a Geiger counter over it and didn’t pick up any high readings, must have had the Geiger counter around 1/2 inch off the clock, was I close enough to detect anything? Struggling for any info on this although I’m guessing newer than 50s/60s with the plastic snooze button which is also glow in the dark although no longer glows, charged in sunlight and got about less than a second of glow from numbers and top button.

This is my first radium watch