An easy way to deal with the hands, which can be quite small items, is to prepare holders for them out of peg wood whittled to an appropriate thickness. This allows you to manipulate the hand without touching it. The peg wood holder can also be held upright in a blob of rodico, a clothes peg, a hole in the desk, etc, whilst the luminous paint is drying. Note that the back side (underneath) of the hand is positioned to the top as this is the side to which the luminous paint is applied.

The pic below demonstrates the method of application of the luminous paint, and shows the hand on the peg wood holder.

This particular luminous paint has a very thin consistency and therefore required multiple applications to build up a sufficient thickness. It is important to ensure that there is not too much build up of paint on the underside of the hand as it may interfere with the hand clearance once mounted back on the watch.

Below are before and after pics of the hands on the Bulova.

As can be seen, this paint is a pale green colour, as opposed to the bright green of other available paints. I feel it produces an attractive, subdued look, suitable for vintage watches. The luminous material is light activated, and the glow is reasonably long lasting, and indeed, glows as green as any other in the dark, as the pic below demonstrates