Rolex lume needs to be updated.

[kieselguhr]

I think the lume on Rolex and Tudor is adequate. While camping and it’s pitch black at night, I can see the lume well up till sunrise. When diving, sunlight goes all the way to 200m so lume is not as important as size/legibility. I don’t use mechanical watches for timing anything on dives. I don’t do caves or wrecks so never seen lume in that environment.


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[DJTOSUB]

Originally Posted by xrole

For what purpose do you want ultra-bright lume? Interested to hear why you feel you need it.

IMO the issue with lume on many Rolex watches is that the hands are slim and surrounded by white gold. As a result there is not a lot of surface area to shine.

Often times in the dark I an easily make out the hour markers, however, the hands are difficult to read (and the hands are the most important thing that you actually need to tell the time in the dark).

[GMT Aviator]

Its all about the surface area. Check out the Explorer 2 42mm.

It shines light a torch at night. Rolex best lume watch bar none.

There is nothing wrong with Rolex lume in my humble opinion.

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Originally Posted by padi56

Lume would be far down my list in priorities with any watch the term Luminover was first introduced to the Rolex line up around 1998 when they changed from radioactive Tritium lume. Today Luminover is made by Nemoto a Japanese luminous paint maker they moved a part of its factory to Switzerland in 1998 in Joint-ventured with RC-Tritec AG.This was to establish Luminova AG Switzerland for supplying Luminova to all the Swiss watch industry including Rolex and most all of the other major brands.Later around 2001/2 the name was changed to super-luminover and many other names for basically the same product under the various brand made up names. But it's mostly all basically the same paint with a slightly different colour pigments plus today its surface area that gives the glow more surface area the brighter the glow.And now we have Chromolight which is more of a blue/green colour again depending on person's eyes and viewing condition,charging conditions etc will effect the glow. Chromolight is a Rolex trademark made up name now, but again this could be a special colour blend of luminous paint by Nemoto for Rolex, I would doubt if Rolex or Tudor themselves would make the lume paint.

Good read, thank you for sharing