No reason to be snobby, therefore no reason to spend more than $20 bucks on it or buy anything other than a Timex. If it has a battery in it, why does it need tritium lume?
it's not tritium that interacts with UV, it's the fluorophore coated on the walls of the tubes. The decay of tritium atoms only emits electrons and electron antineutrinos, which are invisible. The visible light is from the fluorophore excited by the emission from tritium, those fluorophores can also be excited by UV light.
crwhhx yes the mold spores and bacteria virus 🦠 mixes with the protons and the protons eat the bacteria and thy is what emits the light it’s called zT983 Light
You asked about watches for Christmas... yep... a Borealis Scout Sniper. Freakin love this watch! Tritium tubes are really cool btw. Still on sale for $250. Best value I've found after being obsessed with watch forums for awhile now. Happy new year.
+Matthew Hoskins OH that's nice. I would love to get my hands on one :p AHEM. You know? I'm quite the trustworthy guy. *Cough*. Also. I saw your 50m water comment. You're right, it is BS. I just personally wouldn't go swimming with a 50m watch. I have had two fail on me in the ocean. Granted one was a shitty Freestyle and the other was a low end Casio...and I was surfing big waves. Still, I am paranoid.
“Deep Blue” was selling their “fleet admiral calendar tritium “ watch on Memorial Day for alittle over 400.00. Uses t-100 but not flat tubes, but it’s an automatic running on the Miyota 9100, so it’s a hi beat watch, with a sapphire crystal, exhibition caseback, two straps.....100 m water resistance.....
I live in the U.S. and would love to speak with someone at Nite about the Nite Aplha with the PVD coated case and bracelet, it would be splendid if they would answer their phone!!!🤬 Edit: Kind of glad they didn't, I decided on the Ball Engineer Hydrocarbon.
Thanks for the useful review. I'm of the opinion that the luminescence is deliberately not too bright on a lot of the Nite watches. Some of them were designed for military use (indeed some have been designated NATO approved for military) and the last thing you want on a military worn watch is brightness in the dark ! The tritium is enough for your eyes to spot it in close range in the dark versus a traditional watch face light which would be more easily spotted being turned on, or say, the Orient Flight - easily spot that on someone's wrist when hiding in the trees / undergrowth ! I will be purchasing a Nite watch shortly. Cheers
It used to be considered a mark of a good watch that it was not like having a grandfather clock on your wrist. Only the hulk needs a watch that is 44mm across - it looks ridiculous on a normal wrist as if some kind of compensation for a small....
+minitwatch Who knows who knows... :) Immediately caught my eye and watched your review lol, maybe someday i will own that flieger aswell. :)  This new Seiko 5 Pilot model caught my eye too for a while: SRP611 Looks stunning in pictures: uhrforum.de/attachments/1100279d1430906102-der-sommer-kann-kommen-zwei-neue-seikos-img_1272.jpg
damn you are so funny... love the measurement on "genuine leather" tag... LOL. could a tritium tube be charge by a uv light? just keep it coming. cheers.
I suppose it looks OK with the nuclear tubes.. £400 should at least get you a sapphire crystal (K1 is rubbish) and a sellita sw2oo auto movement. I wouldn't pay anything over £50 for a cheap swiss quarts movement in a watch.
The Luminescence doesn't last more than five minutes, so whats the point of making an over priced watch line called nite watch and you can't see it in the dark after ten minutes?
