![]() Granted, it still is a tool watch make no mistakes, with its typical Luminox ultra-lightweight and hard Carbonox case, bright tritium valves for night visibility, and bold markers and hands for immediate legibility as well. The LM3501GOLD.SET is a different kind of watch from the tough no-nonsense tool watches that the brand is so known for. Luminox has certainly built that reputation for itself, and its Navy Seals range of watches are a testament to that. LUMINOX NAVY SEAL LM3501GOLD.SET MEN'S WATCH (Tritium Valves)īeing the official watch licensed to the Navy Seals is no small feat, and to equip the toughest men in the world, means you have the create the toughest equipment in the world. That said, with us innately treating the lume of our watches as some form of personal competition, we’d certainly like to know which one is the best right? Well, we’ve brought about 3 watches using 3 very different types of luminescent material and we’re gonna see which is best. Lume is an understated snob appeal most of the time, unless you hang out in dark places a lot, or you’re really out and about performing some clandestine espionage. I think another appeal of having great lume on our watches is the one-upmanship mentality, where features are sought out of competitiveness or to show our superiority. That, and along with our natural fascination with glowing things has made lume a very appealing feature for our watches. Lumed watches have always had a connection to the military or the deep, all the things that we as men find very cool. Tritium of course, being radioactive too, but as its beta particles are of very low energy, along with the fact that they are stored safely in glass vials means that they’re practically harmless.īut with the development of these new luminescent materials, it raises the question: Do we really need lume? Well, for telling the time in a dark parking lot, or underwater, then yes, we need it. From Swiss Superluminova (the most well known of them all), to Seiko’s proprietary Lumibrite, to the rather unique Tritium valve system. With advancement in technology and innovation, we’ve come up with plenty of safe yet stunning luminescent materials. Options & Choices, but do we really need them?Ĭlearly, a new material was needed and that brings us to what we have today. During the mass production of Radium painted watches, factories employed many women to hand paint the Radium lume onto the dials of watches, and the subsequent exposure to the radiation overtime led to their very untimely and gruesome demise. But you don’t need me to tell you about the consequence of putting such a highly radioactive substance in a watch. At that time, people were intrigued by this new material, and of course, no one was actually aware of the dangerous properties of Radium. One of the most notable brands that strongly utilized Radium paint during that time, was Panerai, with their Radiomir watches made specially for the Italian Navy Frogmen, and named after its revolutionary luminous paint. Though earlier iterations of luminous paint used highly radioactive Radium, which naturally emitted a bright green glow as its isotopes decayed over time. Luminescent paint and the widespread acceptance of wrist watches among men came around the same time, during the early 1900s. Now, we won’t be talking about battery powered watches with a built-in light function, we’ll be talking about watches with actual luminescence painted or applied on the hands and markers. For those who may be unfamiliar with lume, or watches as a whole, here’s a simple almost child-like explanation of what lume is for: It ‘lights’ up your watch so that you can see it at night or in low light situations. I, and I’m sure many others would assume that lume is short for luminescence, and I’d like to think that we’re right on that part. ![]() These acts more than exemplify the watch enthusiasts’ love of lume, as well as the dubious actual need for it. Or maybe, even turning off the bathroom lights or sticking your wrist into a dark corner of a closet, or something silly like that. ![]() I’d be more than willing to bet my bottom dollar that many of us here have deliberately gone to a dark/pitch black room just to witness the glow of our timepieces. ![]()
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