Lume? I see no Lume!

[shedlock2000]

I understand that the lume on Rolex watches has changed alot over the years, i have personaly had a T<25 no date sub, and can definatly see the difference to the super luminova. But many have posted on here the poor Lume brightness. I am curious as to why this is?

Do other watches have better lume, and if so, why? They persumably use the same super luminova Rolex does.

I recall somewhere someone saying 11 coats of lume make this xxxx much brighter. Why does rolex not 'fill' the white gold markers with lume then instead of painting, would surely be better than 11 coats (dont call me surely)

Why is the new DSSD equiped with blue lume, pardon me for being stupid, but blue is in the lower range of the light spectrum making it harder to distinguish from the dark, in the great depths (to which no one will probably wear the DSSD) would this not make it harder to see than the green/yellow lume? And where does blue lume come from, why was this not offered in other watches? I know very little of other high end watches, but cant recall having seen any other colour lume than yellow/green.

So TRF, help me out on this one?