Radioactive vintage watches,

Geiger-Mueller counter measurement memento for those opening vintage watches
Anker Edelstahl Boden watch, Selecta de luxe watch, Futura watch, No Name French manufacture watch, 1955 vintage Polish compass, 3mm red tip TIG electrode for comparison

[@qwertyFUBAR]

I have a wooden box ~1925 for watch repair that has many compartments with radium painted hands. I have yet to have it measured accurately, but I did bring it to a recycle place that tests its scrap metal for radioactivity and the person said it was "off scale" and they did not know their meter very well and did not want to change settings.
The radium has good lifespan but the phosphors they used in the original paint mix degraded under the onslaught of radiation and for decades perhaps there has been no glow. I bought a jar of luminescent powder to make glow in the dark paint and laid some of the hands on top of it in the dark, but I was unable to see a glow either. So I feel that to make some original paint again, I would have to pulverize the material from the hands, separate it from the original phosphors and mix it well in liquid form to make visible paint again.
Maybe some day! But I will have it tested first. Needless to say, I do not sleep with it under my pillow!

[@maciejukasik1828]

I see you have played with radiuim already. Being you just out of plain curiosity (not to mention health issues) I would get a meter. Many painted hands that sounds a lot of radiation.