Post your best lumeshots! For lume lovers!

[Pix]

H3 is known as Tritium, as far as I know. It's probably the best thing to get on your watch (although does not glow that strong, but glowes for 25 years...). The problem is that it does not exist as a paint anymore, just in vials, and that is not adaptable on reps.

Citizen often use Lumibrite as well, at least I saw some sales advertizing so on ebay

Both companies use crystals named Hardlex...

Both are japanese...


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Anyone, tell me if you think I'm wrong...

BTW, is there a way to get Lumibrite as we get Luminova ?

 

[takashi]

I should have said Superluminova C3 The C1 white is considerably less bright than the C3.

 

[Pix]

Taka, you're the lume specialist here, what's your comment on Seiko's lume ?

Here is a small experience.

4 watches, which are the most glowing in my collection (3 gens, 1 rep)

Submitted to the same light during the same time (not 100% perfect method as some lume probably need more time for fully charging), 15 seconds exposure with maximum aperture (F2.6). Photoshop free for the test.

In your opinion which glowes most ?

The same with smallest aperture (F8.0). I find it a good countertest, as it reveils the difference between hands and dial.

 

[daytona4me]

 

[Pix]

@D4M : did you have that CD relumed ??

 

[jkirke]

DSN112

HBBKing

UPO

 

[daytona4me]

@D4M : did you have that CD relumed ??

Nope,, it was just that good!

 

[takashi]

Seiko Lume is indeed very bright like C3 SuperLuminova. When you take picture, it will look like that. However, speaking of which lume will last, SuperLuminova still has the edge (in non radioactive arena).

 

[trailboss99]

H3 is known as Tritium, as far as I know.

No Tritium is the chemical name not a trade name. I seemed to remember that Lumibrite or something like that was a trade name for the stuff. H3 is actualy a grade. It's brighter than T35 and is the mill std for watches. Very rare indeed,

go here: http://yarchive.net/gun/tritium.html and here: http://www.kronometric.org/article/lume/ and here: http://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/radioluminescent/radioluminescentinfo.htm for everything you wanted to know about Tritium but were afraid to ask. Why it's not still available I don't know. Used propperly it's harmless. Some watches still use it for mill use but not many. At least they don't soak moreing lines in the stuff anymore. The US navy used to :shock:

Col.

 

[Pix]

A radioactive watch, all I ever wanted to own :lol:

 

[watchbuff]

Lum Tec b-1

By watchbuff at 2008-12-21

By watchbuff at 2009-01-23
DSN 111H Ultimate

By watchbuff at 2008-12-09

Debaubre Nav -B 47mm

By watchbuff at 2009-01-19

By watchbuff at 2008-10-06

Bell and Ross Project

By watchbuff at 2008-05-20

My custom BR 01-92 orange from Everest. (b4 I got a gen)

By watchbuff at 2008-01-24

Seiko Monster

By watchbuff at 2009-02-15


Just for shits n giggles..
my revent project of my RC Corsair with lights retractable gear and moving pilot.

By watchbuff at 2009-02-15

 

[Pix]

Now we know where you take these nice N.Y. shots from... :mrgreen:

 

[watchbuff]

Thanks pix, unfortunately Im always getting 1 upped when its a contest.

 

[Pix]

Anyone tried "walking lume" ?

Photoshop free

This one is layered, ok, so it's not "natural" :mrgreen:

 

[PHicks]

Nice effects Pix.

Here is my PAM

 

[smc]

Ok first of all, Lum Tec uses superluminova.

Second, lumibrite is made for Seiko and was developed with Seiko by Nemoto to replace tritium. The swiss manufacturers could not develop anything as good so it was licensed to a startup in Switzerland called Tritec.

Tritec rebranded it luminova (and then superluminova when Nemoto made a better lumibrite).

It's the same stuff.

Tritec doesn't make it, it's Japanese. The swiss just don't want to tell people that they use Japanese lume.

The glow-inc V10 stuff is so grainy it's almost impossible to use for luming watches and will be ruined permanently (no-glow) if exposed to moisture.

It is the same stuff as superluminova, lumibrite, and the stuff I sell - the only difference is the grain size and the fact that my powder is coated making it waterproof.

It's all Strontium Aluminate.

A larger grain glows longer. A smaller grain still glows for 8-12 hours but is actually usable.

I have an Orange Monster, and an Omega Seamaster 300M. They both glow the same.

 

[PHicks]

Thanks for exposing this to us all SMC.

My PAM, which is the best lumed watch I have (DSN Tritec as I understand), lights up like a flashlight if I expose it to strong light for a few seconds. The problem that I have is that when wearing the watch under normal situations i.e. wandering around the house with the watch face exposed, I get pretty well no lume when I walk into my bedroom with the light off. Now I don't want to appear as a party pooper but the whole idea of lume is that you can read the time when it's dark and I can't!

Now I admit that I don't have my home illuminated like a supermarket deli counter but I recall from my youth that the old radioactive lume used to work with the smallest amount of light.

Am I the only one that experiences this?

Is this a case of using grades of Strontium Aluminate that react quickly give the illusion of great lume while another grade which is slower to absorb will give a better long term effect?

Interested in the opinion of others....

 

[Pix]

Thx for the slice of history
So the Swiss Superluminova is japanese, and the Swiss ETA28xx series are Chinese :lol:

 

[zedd]

Guess what watches these are

Its night time here, so no UV exposure atm for maximum lume

 

[smc]

Ok i'll one up you. Just completed. I'm gonna call it the BoogieMonster lol.