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Waiting for Islander watches with T-100 tritium

The field watch is awesome. It's crazy how it's so thin even with the large tubes.

Luminox are my favorite watch. My brother was an F-117 pilot and Barry Cohen made custom watches for my brother and all the Bandits.

Santa brought me a 3002 10 months back, a daily wearer. Nice size and weight. I can confirm it is a lume monster !

The last one is a thing of beauty. I wouldn't have expected that from a tactical watch brand. Make it solar or automatic on a bracelet and I would be very interested. And to address the wrist check, wearing two unobtainium watches at the same time, good for you Marc 🙂

I have seven Luminox watches starting with the original Navy Seal yellow purchased in 1997. The Tritium is barely visible but the watch still runs perfectly. Thanks for sharing these Marc. Have a great day! 👍🏻👍🏻🇺🇸

Marc when you gonna hop in the tritium game?

Another excellent video Marc! Thank you very much for carrying more tritium offerings. I love my Marathons and Trasers very much. Protec watches are excellent also. Also, the T100 trit tubes are WAY brighter and has a longer lifespan then the T25 trit tubes used in most other tritium watches. Especially those "brick" style trits used in the Protec field watch. CRAZY bright for sure. I'm so thankful you're bringing more tritium watches onboard. Cheers!🙂👍

Protek ... Protreck?. Casio will be happy!🤔

Are they making any T-100 watches? That would make me want one of these! Sorry Marc… I just found the T-100 Protec watches on your website!👍

Looking good! I'll never be without a tritium watch.

Marc. Those blue markers on indices and amber on the hands would be perfect on your skin diver design.

The field version is very handsome and so different from the rest. A winner. We had roller buckles on our belts in the 1970s.

Thanks for the video, I was just looking at some cool Aragon watches that have the T100 tubes. Super cool for sure.

Same size like my Timex Expedition which is max for my wrist. Wish it is a bit smaller like 45-46mm lug to lug.

Awesome great night lume on the 3000s !

Gosh these are all so cool! I'd love a 40mm case with a bezel and that t100 tube set

Love the field watch range. Only wish they were 36/38mm...

Marc any chance we see a T-100 Islander in the near future?

Thanks Marc. That’s date just just is perfect . Looks killer on you.

Did you have your the DadJust cleaned? It looks a little spiffier than usual. It is an awesome watch.

Field is sharp. That is my pick. Even before the colored tritium. I do agree though with other post, when I see "Protek" I see "Protrek". He could have consulted with me, I would have invented a more distinct name, for the price of a watch though! 😆 He could have just switched, "Tek-Pro"

Quite the informative video. You do an amazing job of breaking it down during the showcase.

The other dial colors on the field watch are stunning! Don’t see enough tritium watches in the “classy 3-hand everyday metal watch” format.

Excellent....you can't have too many tritium watches out there. Wish more brands used this.

To show off the tritium while using studio lights, you can shine a black light flash light (or other source) onto the watch and it'll highlight the tritium tubes!

The black one looks tactically nice.

They all need the strap keeper from the silicone Barton straps. Easy swap.

Gotta admit, citing the radioactivity of a banana was pretty sly, great comparison.

My friend bought the 3003 with brown strap. However it has NO ROLLER on the clasp. It LOOKS like a roller but in reality it’s just solid titanium. Did Barry downgrade the production, or is Mark thinking wishfully ?!? Rollers are great but rare.

Wow.That second one looks like a casio mrw200 but without the day window .Mind you the casio has zero luminescence to be fair.Happy to see they are quartz.

Another excellent video Mark! I have always been partial to tritium lume for my watches.

I like watches with Tritium tubes for their functionality, 5 of the 13 watches that I regularly wear have Tritium (3 are old Luminox). People talk about the half life and after 10 years they will be 1/2 as bright. That can be misleading because our eyes don't see light like that- something that is exactly 1/2 as bright, if you don't have an immediate frame of reference, will look almost as bright as the original. It will not look half as bright to your eyes.

Aloha! What is the name of the watch that was super bright (monster???)? That one looks amazing! Mahalo!

Is the long battery life due to a long life battery or low power consumption of the movement? I wonder the same with some casio models.

Misprint on the website re crown action for the field watch: "The scratch-resistant sapphire crystal dial ensures clear visibility of the time and other features, while the screwdown crown and water-resistant leather strap make this watch water-resistant up to 100 meters."

Just saw these on your site, Marc! Was looking forward to a video

Please bring out a silver dial Brookville! I will buy it day one!

I'm not a diver, so just an amateur's conjecture: But I have always thought that any watch that would actually be used for diving ought to be using tritium tubes, not luminous paint. Don't have to depend on sunlight and the lumination is constant.

I see what they did there, protek pro trek protect. Amazing

Which one had the red 12 o'clock registration?

Sick wrist watch check!!!!!

It literally looks like a rebranded Luminox. I say that not as a bad thing; I like Luminox watches, but the question it begs is: why buy this when I can just buy a Luminox for around the same money? That said, I really like the white dial. If I was going to buy one, that would be the one I went with.

When I was shopping for a tritium watch, Luminox was an obvious budget choice (a Ball Engineer or a GSAR being a bit much for a bed-watch). I was ultimately dissuaded by how many upset posts & reviews I was seeing from former Luminox enthusiasts - the very common theme being that the quality control had declined precipitously. Now I'm wondering if this turn had anything to do with B.C. moving on from the company. My understanding is that all the h3 tubes you'll find in watches are from mb-microtech. Does anyone know if the t-25 vs t-100 distinction is just down to the size of the tube, or if they actually put a higher concentration of tritium in the tube? I haven't been able to chase this detail down yet. Thanks. Oh yeah - that field watch is some sweet watch. With the lighting, the titanium first looked like bronze on my screen.

Ooh the blue one is nice.

Man these are cool as heck. Like Ball but affordable

Marc Whats the difference of isl 01 and isl 02?

Wasn't Luminox a Mondaine brand?

Ahhhh shucks!! I didn’t win a prise?!? 😢 Thanks for sharing your passion! That orange “Monster” looks fantastic! Ok, the Protek watches as well 😉

I own one of these, series 1000 USMC and I can tell you that the date window is useless, almost impossible to see even under direct light and even if you have perfect vision. Otherwise the watch is Great!

Wow these are awesoms!

A Ball on a budget! 👍🏾😁🤣

Armourlite watches is also a good buy, better maybe .

To me Luminox are like if a G-Shock mated with a Swatch and had some sort of weird cursed baby but I'm often still living in the 1990's. Nowadays they look decent. From this one I get Citizen had an affair with Ball.

Don’t you sell bertucci tritium?

Plastic watch with a quartz Ronda for $400? Buy a G5600 and an automatic Islander instead. Great video Mark!

Glad to see the use of T100 which Luminox has shied away from.

Where are the Protek's made?

Lume at 12:08

I can’t believe Casio will let this stand without a fight. Even the font reads the same 🤔🙄

I was ready to order the field watch until it was mentioned it doesn't have a screw down crown. WTF? Why when the other 3 do? No excuse for any outdoors, sport or field watch not to. Is it stupidity or trying to maximize profits? It's only a miyota and over priced at nearly $500. Put in a Sellita movement and screw down and $500 would be reasonable.

I bought 4. separate Luminox watches first one great, last 3 Junk!

Do we really know if it's half as bright as 12 years? Certainly it will have half the radiation after 12 years, but surely (?) The phosphor has a maximum glow, you can't just bombard it with infinite radiation and have the glow proportional forever. Therefore, maybe (?) The glow is more than half after 12 years

good ole barry

When I was a kid we didn't have much money so I had to wear cheap bobo sneakers. All the cool kids would make fun of me because I wasn't wearing Nike or Reebok. I hated Family Dollar's "PROTEK" sneakers and would never wear anything with that name again. Looking back, I was lucky I had shoes because even today, some kids don't.

Nice watch

It Protek, it also attak, but most importantly, it glows in the dark! .... (I'm sorry.) By the way, I would love to see Islanders with tritium... although I can imagine what a pain it would be to deal with all the NRC regulations.

Are YOU related to BILL HADER ???

Ahh, you mentioned that...🤭

You ruined looking at the new stuff for me by showing your Rolex. I could live with that one as an "only".

I want a prize

Protek Filipe

Completely off subject…pan am style islander northport 🤯

A banana?

If i ever want a plastic watch,i'll get a G-shock.

Rah

Not sure about the name though.