Why did they bother with the air king 116900 lume?

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(I hope that’s the right ref no )

Wore my air king yesterday for the first time in a long time and I enjoy it from time to time. As always I sleep with whatever watch I am wearing on.

I think it’s well known the lume is poor on this watch, and I don’t actually care about lume at all, but it got me thinking, what on earth happened here? Why did they release it like that? Over and over and over again lol? Obviously it’s not intended to be better or they would have just made it better some point during production, right? So why? It’s useless it may as well just not be on there?

(I’ve had three by the way, and it doesn’t bother me in terms of wearing the watch, just thinking to myself )