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Not terribly unusual for the time, same for light-colored dial
May 09, 2008,09:26 AM - (view entire thread)

By: Rrryan (registered)  |  PM
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The 6b's date to the late '30s when lume still hadn't become entirely universal.  As well, the 6b's were intended as navigators' instruments, and like the deck chronometers blued hands (and light dials) were more traditional in that application.

Later in 1956 the MoD upgraded many of these by re-caseing them in waterproof Dennision screwback cases, replacing the dial with a black lumnious dial, and adding lume paint to the same hands.

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