Looney worked as a watch dial painter using glow-in-the-dark paint laced with radium. Westclox clocks, with their glow-in-the-dark faces, were once hand painted with radium, at the Radium Dial Co ...

HINGHAM — The hands of 87-year-old Astrid Donnellan are as steady as a surgeon as she painstakingly works on restoring the dial of an 1825 antique clock. Clocks are on everyone’s minds this ...