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Originally Posted by tigey
My Seiko Monster is a torch compared to my sub and the lume lasts longer also
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You guys and your watches,now watches like the Seiko Monster have a huge lume surface area compared to all Rolex watches which have small hour plots even smaller lume are on hands.The more lume surface area the great the lume will seem to glow.But when you start to use charts and the like IMHO this is way getting into OCD territory and start taking the enjoyment of owning a Rolex watch.And lume glow is down to the persons eyes and whether viewed in a totally dark space and eyes accustomed to the dark.But lume glow would be far down my list in importance with any watch.
And now we have Chromalight another made up name, but in the real world its only a different colour combination of Luminover paint and would expect made by the same company. Luminover is made by Nemoto a Japanese luminous paint maker now 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 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 its mostly all basically the same paint with a slightly different colour pigments plus hand and marker surface area.And now we have Chromolight which is more on the blue spectrum colour now which is a Rolex trademark name. But again this could be a special colour blend of luminous paint by Nemoto for Rolex, I would doubt if Rolex themselves would make lume paint.