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About LinkBacksIs tritium brighter than something like Superluminova or Lumibrite? I've never seen tritium in person.
Is tritium brighter than something like Superluminova or Lumibrite? I've never seen tritium in person.
SuperLumiNova and LumiBrite are both brighter than tritium, often considerably so. What tritium offers that those two do not is a glow without charging. I generally prefer SL/LB over tritium, but each has its pros and cons.
The bottom line is that luminous paint is not even in the same class as Mb-Microtec's tritium vials ... they glow for 25+ years w/o any external light source.
I know I am asking for a debate but -even the best lume paint, after 15 minutes is barely brighter than tritium; and by the time 20-30 minutes roll by ... the tritium vials seem like spot lights compared to the dying glow of the lume paint. Observations are first hand between my 2 Traser watches versus Lum-Tec, Seiko, Zenton, Deep Blue, Steinhart, Maratac ...
Last edited by rukrem; April 8th, 2012 at 02:41.
RukRem
Casio: MRG-1100, G-Shock, Pathfinder; Debaufre: Air-force, CSAR; Deep-Blue: Master 2000 III; Hamilton: Below Zero PVD & S/S, Khaki Field Mechanical; Lum-Tec: 500M-3, B12; Maratac: Automatic Pilot; Orient/ Star: 300m, Revolver, Retro-Future, Pocket-Watch, Bambino; Seiko: Sumo, 7002, SKX, BFK, Stargate; Steinhart: Aviation GMT, Nav B-Uhr, Proteus, Triton; Suunto: Elementum Terra, Core; Timex: Expedition WS4; Tissot: T-touch; Traser: Classic Pro Auto, 6502 Sterile; Victorinox: Titanium Field; Zenton: M45 Destro, V45; Zixen: DSR-1000 GMT, Trimix GMT
Absolutely no doubt,Tritium(even T25)RULES THE NIGHT!
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This question comes up often.
Here are a bunch of watches - SuperLuminova, Lumibrite, other regular lume, T25 Tritium and T100 Tritium:
Initially, the regular lume "Blooms" and is much brighter than the Tritium watches.
After just an hour or so, however, the Tritium watches are much brighter - and stay that way for many years:
Tritium rules the night!
HTH
Last edited by gaijin; April 8th, 2012 at 03:37.
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I prefer super luminova over tritium... A fully charge SL can easily last thru out the nite, although it last few hrs is not as bright as initial but still can be spottted easily in nite.
Tritium will have no changes but is always the boring small fine straight line and is SO SMALL...
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What about:
Tiny slivers of high quality lume vs. Larger indices of the less potent stuff (eg Seiko SARB071 vs. Sinn 556)?
In my collection the Benarus Megalodon is the brightest. I have all my divers on a shelf and they receive the same amount of light. When I shut off the light the Benarus outshines them all.
Armida A1 is the new standard on lume.
+1000 Agreed,,, and all my other watch's are Trit, you actually can't compare Trit unless you compare Trit to Trit..Originally Posted by kokoro
This Armida A1 is very visible at 5am in the morning when I wake up.
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