glow in the dark issue

[Vegan1968]

Greetings

I recently purchased an air king directly from a rolex dealer.

Can someone please explain to me how the watch lights up in the dark?

If I stay in the sun or take a light directly to the watch, it will glow for a short while.

Does it need to charge for days or weeks before it glows continually in the dark?

Can it be defective?

Thank you for your help.

[kilyung]

Sounds like it's operating normally. It is only a temporary lume and doesn't last all night.

[Sherwooddavid]

Originally Posted by kilyung

Sounds like it's operating normally. It is only a temporary lume and doesn't last all night.

Agree with Mike.

[T. Ferguson]

Rolex lume does not last all night even in the best of conditions. But I believe even especially so with the Air King because the hands and sticks are pretty thin so there is not as much lume material as on say, a Sub or GMT.

[Rags]

It's working just fine. Lume isn't supposed to glow really bright all night.

[cop414]

Originally Posted by T. Ferguson

Rolex lume does not last all night even in the best of conditions. But I believe even especially so with the Air King because the hands and sticks are pretty thin so there is not as much lume material as on say, a Sub or GMT.

Originally Posted by Rags

It's working just fine. Lume isn't supposed to glow really bright all night.

+1

Welcome to TRF.

[SUBversive]

Might be worth having your ad look at it. Please post what they say. Thanks.

[bondtoys]

Sorry, I have to disagree.

While the first bright lume only lasts for a minute or so, I am able to read the time in my EXP II all night long without problems.
It glows significantly less than in the first minute but it's enough to tell me the time.

Of course, it won't be a flashlight replacement.

[Swift_Movement]

I may end up starting another thread on this even though I have seen one before. And I don't mean to high jack your thread. But I am sick of seeing pictures of other ceramic subs online and the chromalight looks blue. Mine appears more greenish. Is there known variances? Even if my perception of blue is different then other people's it cannot be dismissed that my lume color is simply a different color then most online. It is all sold as the same.

[Syed117]

Originally Posted by Swift_Movement

I may end up starting another thread on this even though I have seen one before. And I don't mean to high jack your thread. But I am sick of seeing pictures of other ceramic subs online and the chromalight looks blue. Mine appears more greenish. Is there known variances? Even if my perception of blue is different then other people's it cannot be dismissed that my lume color is simply a different color then most online. It is all sold as the same.

I think I've mentioned this before, but I'll say it again.

Every single display is different. Every display is calibrated differently. Every single camera has variations in the software that accounts for different looking pictures. Those are two factors that account for the vast differences in what colors seem to be. I could take a picture with a camera and make the lume look purple or I could take an extremely accurate picture and adjust my monitor to make it look completely different.

The only way for you to see the lume difference between two watches without any extraneous factors is to hold both in your hand and see them with your own eyes. Cameras and displays can blend an infinite amount of gradiations and make green look blue and vice versa.

What looks green or blue on your display might look completely different on someone else's.