Old Timex Glow-In-the-Dark Military-Time Watch

            "Takes a Licking and Keeps On Ticking"

Timex Bullseye Military Sprite Watch. The numbers on the inner '12-hour' band 'glow in the dark'. Sometimes referred to as the roulette wheel watch.

I got this as a kid circa 1972. It still works after 40 years, but now only runs about 10 hours on a winding, and the lume glow fades very fast.   I used this watch more as an adult than as a kid...
From the late eighties through the late nineties this was my 'hiking watch" which I strapped around my hiking staff  (I didn't want to take a 'good' watch hiking).  It was replaced as my hiking watch in the late nineties by the dreaded cell-phone's clock.

This watch has the number 231702472 on the dial, indicating it is catalog# 23170 using Timex's #24 movement mechanism and was made in 1972. I have also seen pictures and/or references to year codes 71 and 73 on the internet.

Taken on: February 13, 2012

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Glow in the Dark

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