Dave! You have truly outdone yourself, best lume war / comparison on-line. You put in lots of work and talent. This is just one way in which you hard work and talent sets you in a class of its own. Thank you for all you do, it is greatly appreciated 🙏👍👏
Well done. That's a brilliant test. 👏Congratulations, that is definitely the most definitive test so far. All are great in terms of lume. I know I can see both my Seiko and my Orient in the morning getting up for work and that's all that matters to me. It is really great to see some lume scores that can actually be measured.
Excellent video, and system. Have a few Ball Tritium tubed watches, favourite being the Deepquest. Glow is relativly dull, but constant, with 3 different colours for the 12 marker, hands and the other hour markers. Probably score a 6 or 7 through the test but will keep glowing for the next 20yrs or so. Look forward to the new standard being used. Thanks
Such an incredible well-done lume competition! To say the least you developed a standard! Just great work all around! Thank you so much for featuring the Diver, it was fun to find out its grade and watch it compete against some of the best torches out there! Thanks again Dave!
Been looking forward to this ever since you teased it on Collection Conundrum, and very well done. IMHO, the Axios is still the winner because the brightness of the hands is arguably more important than the brightness of the markers. Maybe I'm just biased though, because I love my own Ironclad to bits.
🔥 🙌🔥 Watched a lot of lume comparison videos but I love what you did here! Can’t wait to see more. I just ordered the SWC Bunker so I’m excited to see how it shows in person
Dave, this is the absolute best of the best lume videos I have seen, and some real science behind it, absolutely amazing bro, this one is untouchable, seriously amazing video m8!!! Wow blown away
Incredibly well done video, Dave. Hands down the best lume comparison video I’ve seen to date. Production values here are also worth commenting on. You scored a grand-slam home run with this video!
Love the music dude. I haven’t been watching too many videos lately. I’ve been super busy with my new business but I’ve found some time to binge watch some vids
Hey Dave, love your channel, the way you do things, your attitude and modest personality are just so ahem, watchable and pleasant. And this was a great idea! You really got me thinking about the science of it now. Can we know your charging procedure? Do you know how long it takes in normal sunlight to maximally charge a deeply multilayered hand or index? I wonder if grow lights would be the best imitators of sunlight. I wonder if you have already bought a few extra of whatever model lightsource you've been using to keep it consistent now that you've got your formula down. Do you estimate from your research that you're probably getting them about as charged as they can be gotten? I wonder because what if the most layered applications take the longest to charge the bottom layers, but will then last the longest (or just start off the brightest) if you do... So many good questions now dancing through my mind. Like: what is the term for point brightness? Is it lumosity? Or luminosity? What if you also measured the total light emitted and threw in some fully lumed dials with their crazy "torch" effect - not hard to win a total-light-emitted contest when you lume the whole dial (and maybe even a bunch of the bezel). For me, the best tests would ultimately be functional: charge the heck out of 'em and come back at intervals through the night and tell us which ones you can read the best easiest longest with the least squinting. Haha: scientific subjectivity!
Wow! You really brightened my day by shining a light on an element of watchdom that sadly, is too often a dark spot in the design and execution of many otherwise shining watch brands. Very illuminating video!
Thank you for the time and effort, not only to develop this system, but for your style of presentation. This is outstanding work, and an outstanding little video.
Excellent Work! Boggles the mind that your video has not garnered more views so far. Do you have plans to test the Citizen BN0150? It won Jody's Lumewars 4 beating Seikos and Rolex. Would be very interesting to see how Citizen's blue lume stacks up against the competitors. And being a sub 200 Dollar watch it would sure fit your channel profile. All the best, keep up the great work!
Great work on all this 👍🏻 I do love the lume battles and testing my own watches to see which is my brightest. Looks like you are ready to show where lumicast stacks up from Wicked Watch Co. Future releases.
I really appreciate the time and effort it took to put this one together Dave! Excellent overview and comparison. I am personally starting to prefer the blue over the greenish hued lumes on offer. I got a Steeldive with the blue lume and it seems to be at least as good and maybe initially brighter than my Seiko Samurai. I have a couple watches from the 1970's that still glow with a charge, but they fade pretty fast. I also just got an old Rolex field watch that doesn't glow at all any more, but I do know it will be radioactive for 1600 more years. That 80 year old watch has a scant 24 hour power reserve, hand wind only- but it keeps excellent time.
Another great vid dave and sorry to f with your mind but when you had the watches together at the end comparing hand lume everytime i paused and looked the orient looked the brightest. Im glad bcause i have the triton and its my best lumed watch.
Recommendation/request: in the scenes where you showed all the watches, like for the hand and marker comparisons, you showed the brand names but spoke the model names. That made it more difficult to follow than it needed to be. Could you in future comparison show both brand and model? Thanks!
Super job. Very original. Luminosity is extremely important to me in a watch and I will look forward in the future to see what their J-Scores are! I am really interested in finding out the J-Score of a watch with tritium tubes.
Now that's how you get a blind, video unseen subscription. Your title and thumbnail game are going to take this channel to the top! Note: Great video, love the RGB ranking concept. At 09:07 however, Boldr "looks" like a legit 5th if not 6th place.
First of all Amazing video. No one has done this before! If possible we would like more of this content. That being said, the Seiko marinemaster lume is brighter and more long lasting than that samurai as the Samurai is not a high end seiko so they don't do their best on those models. Probably the same case with an Orient saturation diver.
A great idea! Have you tried a log scale on the score axis? It might highlight the differences in the "high time" part of the graph, which is where the attention is.
Usually only 2 or 3, sometimes I just measure around and try to pick one in the middle. But I did multiple time lapses of every watch to make sure I was getting fairly consistent results. And I also settled on 2 digit score without decimals to account somewhat for the (probably large) margin of error.
Could you please consider adding to this comparison a few watches with titrium? Not massively expensive watches, but ones reasonably priced (under 1$k) like Marathon, Deep Blue and others. Great video by the way, keep up the good work.
I recently featured a Tritium watch in a line comparison on the February nmicrobrand showcase video, towards the end of it, you can see it here and get the score and compare it to other watches I've tested. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VzoJQnwl7Pk.html
Fantastic work, really impressive and long over due. Stuff like this is what sets your channel apart and above others. I am curious if you'll consider getting a tritium lume'd watch and using that as the base line instead of the sieko?
A this point i don't want to change my baseline, but I do have a tritium watch to measure. I think on this scale T100 tubes would probably score around 30. So far brighter than anything else after an hour, but maybe less bright for the first half hour than some of the others.
@@JusttheWatch Sounds reasonable, at the very least T100 would give a good comparison for viewers. I don't own any of the watches in the video but anyone with a tritium watch could reasonably compare their personal experience with a T100 watch to the featured watches with your standardized score.
Hey Dave, You may have just set the new standard for all watch channels by which they measure lume. You may have to patent your new formula..lol! Cheers from a subscriber in Nova Scotia. M
I loved the sistem you used, it's something new and pretty amazing An alternative way of score could be measuring the are below the curve, that way you could measure the ligth given through the length of the 70 minutes, that using the work you have already done, I would like to help with the math background (if you like)
I will say Seikos have some great lume and I briefly had a Dan Henry 1964 (rev Panda) and the Lume on it was Crazy Bright.. I would of kept it but the case size was too small for me. now I am considering a 1963 at 42.5mm
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While I suspect our Starlight model might fare poorly in any lume battle 😂 I look forward to putting our Equinox entrant into the ring (which while uses BGW9 for some parts, has X1 C3 for the key diver portions 😁). Nice scientific look at lume Dave!
Thanks for such a video. I'd love to have seen a Helm 'Khuraburi' ('Matte Black with C3 Lume' version) and a Luminox 'F-117 Nighthawk' included, though it's not clear how many layers of lume are included on both. Also, could you consider creating a publicly viewable Google 'lume score' spreadsheet with the hand, marker and (sorted by) overall lume scores for these and future watches?
I've thought about doing that. For now I'm hoping to just do regular Lume videos and always include the most recent ranking at the end of those. We'll see how it goes.
Exactly! In the dead of winter when it's pitch black when I get out of bed, my Marathon is going supernova compared to the myriad of other watches in my watch box. Not even close. So what if it only lasts 25 yrs, I'll probably be night-blind by then.
I have 3 Luminox watches from the early/mid-90s that I still keep in rotation solely because the tritium is still going and it’s brighter than most of the newer watches in the collection. I’m looking forward to seeing the Marathon watches on this new scale.
I purchased an LL Bean Tritium tube Field watch mostly with gift cards I received. It has become my night time watch on a Marine Nationale-style elastic parachute bag strap. Real comfortable and always clearly visible in the night - all night long.
I notice some of my Citizen eco drives also have some solid lume especially after being outside some…..the Promaster that came in the mini dive tank case is the strongest contender of the 7 Citizen ED I have…..thought to share this tidbit
