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28 February 2020, 09:39 AM | #31 |
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Lume seems over rated to me, I've never really needed it much it doesn't even last long if you had to depend on it. I'd rather have a nicer dial than choose one with lume just for that sake. Example being Romans over stick. No lume but a nicer looking dial, to me. Even my Expll doesn't last long enough to appreciate it.
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28 February 2020, 11:13 AM | #32 |
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My Seiko Monster is a torch compared to my sub and the lume lasts longer also
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28 February 2020, 09:45 PM | #33 |
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I agree 100%. I have a Sky Dweller and absolutely love it, it has become my favorite watch. Agree the superluminova is not very effective but all the other features more than compensate for it.
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6 March 2020, 09:05 PM | #34 |
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Just dropping this excellent graph here with some measured data. Apologies if it's been shared before. Subjectively, with my eyes, I find the lume to be incredible when fully charged at 1000. And only really takes about 30 secs to charge with a bright full spectrum light such as your phone's flashlight. But, as the graph shows, within an hour its lost 90% of its brightness and is now only helpful in very dark situations. That jives with my experience.
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And now we have Chromalight another made up name, but in the real world its only a different colour combination of Luminover paint and would expect made by the same company. Luminover is made by Nemoto a Japanese luminous paint maker now they moved a part of its factory to Switzerland in 1998 in Joint-ventured with RC-Tritec AG.This was to establish Luminova AG Switzerland for supplying Luminova to all the Swiss watch industry including Rolex and most all of the major brands.Later around 2001/2 the name was changed to super-luminover and many other names for basically the same product under the various brand made up names. But its mostly all basically the same paint with a slightly different colour pigments plus hand and marker surface area.And now we have Chromolight which is more on the blue spectrum colour now which is a Rolex trademark name. But again this could be a special colour blend of luminous paint by Nemoto for Rolex, I would doubt if Rolex themselves would make lume paint.
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6 March 2020, 11:48 PM | #38 | |
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10 March 2020, 03:51 AM | #40 |
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IMHO Superluminova sucks.
Rolex should use radioactive lume like Luminox, replacing it each time the watch is serviced.
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10 March 2020, 06:09 AM | #41 |
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If you want great lume, you'll need a watch with tritium tubes. Everything else fades during the night. Tritium lasts 20-25 years, runs day and night, and never needs "charging" from a light source. Plus, it's replaceable during service decades later, when it starts to fade.
Ball Watches makes some great mechanical models, and most of them have tritium tubes.
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