Lume Explanation

[behardt]

Can someone please explain how Chromalight is applied. Is it like paint or is it more complicated than that (baked on, etc.)?

Thanks in advance.

[4lx]

Here's a video of someone reluming a dial with a good explanation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhM4jXmKO3U&t=315s

[tkerrmd]

Originally Posted by behardt

Can someone please explain how Chromalight is applied. Is it like paint or is it more complicated than that (baked on, etc.)?

Thanks in advance.

You are Yoda for God's sake!!

[LuminousMaximus]

Originally Posted by tkerrmd

You are Yoda for God's sake!!

Hehe. I just saw that. "Applied chromalite how is..."

[Tools]

Originally Posted by behardt

Can someone please explain how Chromalight is applied. Is it like paint or is it more complicated than that (baked on, etc.)?

Thanks in advance.

All lume is paint. It is mixed with a photo-luminescent compound that is excited when exposed to light - that excitement causes the mix to emit a photon that appears in the visible light spectrum.

The older paints were mixed with tritium. Tritium does not glow, the paint does when bombarded by the rays given off by the tritium mixed in.

[behardt]

Originally Posted by tkerrmd

You are Yoda for God's sake!!

Know everything about Rolex, I do not. May the force be with you doc...

[behardt]

Originally Posted by 4lx

Here's a video of someone reluming a dial with a good explanation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhM4jXmKO3U&t=315s

perfect - thank you sir!

[weeone]

Quick and silly question about lume (if you don't mind me asking in this thread). Can you do any harm to your lume by "charging" it? Let's say by holding a flashlight right in front of your watch for 30 seconds.

[Tommyc626]

When I first got my watch, I thought the lume on my watch was too dim. Then I realized it needs to be charged and best way to charge it is direct sunlight.

[weeone]

Originally Posted by Tommyc626

When I first got my watch, I thought the lume on my watch was too dim. Then I realized it needs to be charged and best way to charge it is direct sunlight.

For some reason I have no issue with charging it with natural light (sun) but feel that a flashlight is bad. Any truth?

[padi56]

Originally Posted by weeone

Quick and silly question about lume (if you don't mind me asking in this thread). Can you do any harm to your lume by "charging" it? Let's say by holding a flashlight right in front of your watch for 30 seconds.

No.

Originally Posted by weeone

For some reason I have no issue with charging it with natural light (sun) but feel that a flashlight is bad. Any truth?

No truth whatsoever.


And Chromalight is 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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[weeone]

Thank you for sharing your expertise, Padi!

PS. Your sarcastic posts are hilarious.