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ArmourLite Shatterproof Tritium Field Watch

Tigole

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Jun 1, 2016

I have no experience with this watch, but those lume shots have got to be doctored. Normal tritium is pretty dim. You'll never see them glow that brightly. Think of the worst lume you've ever seen on a watch, and that's about how bright tritium is.

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ArmourLite

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Armourlite

Jun 1, 2016

TigoleHi Tigole, the lume shots are renderings. However, the tritium illumination on these models is indeed brighter than most other T25 tritium watches. We are on the higher spectrum of the 0 to 25 scale of T25. The key point about tritium illumination is that the visible brightness is perceived differently by each person. When you first enter a dark environment after having been in a bright environment, the perceived brightness may not be as much. After spending some amount of time in a dark environment, the perceived brightness becomes more and more significant. As the eyes adjust, the visible brightness increases. This is the opposite with standard lume watches. With luminescent paint, the visible brightness is constantly decreasing. Since tritium markers are constantly illuminated and need no recharging, the illumination is always consistent.

Mescolito

Jun 3, 2016

ArmourLiteArmourLite, I'm Curious how this watch compares to your ISO401 T100 model regarding the brightness of the tritium? I was torn between the two models, and ended up purchasing the ISO401 on a different site, but now that I've seen this one, I'm tempted since I've never seen it selling for a price this low, and I've been watching for a while now. I own two other tritium watches, both are pretty old and well past the tritium's half life, but still quite readable, but difficult to differentiate between the green and blue tubes.

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Tigole

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Jun 4, 2016

ArmourLiteMy experience is that T25 seems dim overall. When you first enter a dark environment after having been in a bright environment, the perceived brightness will be zero, because that's how dim T25 is. Compared to say a Seiko diver, where you can see the lume glow in slight shading. And as your eyes adjust to the darkness, the brightness of a standard lume watch will increase as well, because it doesn't take that long for your eyes to adjust and standard lume doesn't fade that fast. It would probably take one or two hours for T25 to look brighter than good standard lume, but I suppose that's dependent on how bright the environment was before the lights go off.

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ArmourLite

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Armourlite

Jun 5, 2016

MescolitoHi Mescolito
All of our ArmourLite models feature standard T25 Swiss tritium markers whereas our Isobrite models (such as the ISO401) feature supercharged T100 Swiss tritium markers. The T25 and T100 designations refer to the combined amount of tritium gas that is hermetically sealed in the glass tubes in the watch. Watches designated as T25, which is the industry standard, have up to 25 mCI (millicuries) of tritium gas in the watch. On the other hand, watches designated as T100 have up to 100 mCi of tritium gas. The higher volume of gas in T100 watches result in more electrical energy being created. More electrical energy equals brighter visible illumination. Therefore, the T100 tritium illumination in our Isobrite models is up to 4 times brighter than standard T25 tritium illumination. T100 makes seeing the time in the dark much easier on the eyes.
The ArmourLite Captain Field Series watches we are offering on Massdrop combine the standard T25 Swiss tritium illumination with a build quality not found anywhere else. These watches have a special shatterproof crystal that we developed call ArmourGlass. It's equivalent to having ballistic glass on your watch. The crystal has been scientifically tested to withstand impacts up to 6,000 Vickers whereas most watch crystals can only withstand about 700 Vickers. In addition, there is a protruding heavy duty rubber ring around the edge of the crystal to provide extra protection. With a depth rating of 100m, these models can indeed go diving. We also power these models with a Swiss-Made Ronda quartz movement.

Kilbz

Jun 6, 2016

TigoleI don't have an Amourlite watch but I do have a Traser with T25 illumination, Compared to my various Seikos with traditional illumination, T25 is much dimmer if just entering darkness, However my traser is my 'Go To' hunting watch cause even after about 10 years (t25 has a halflife of about 12 years) at 4:30 in the morning (after a whole night of darkness) when its time to get up and get ready it is still very bright to my night adjusted eyes where as the illmuibright watches have become too dim to read correctly unless I destroy my night vision with a flashlight to 'recharge' the illumination.

Tigole

464

Jun 6, 2016

KilbzWe're not in disagreement. I did state it would take an hour or two before T25 starts looking brighter than Seiko's lumibrite. That's probably too low an estimate. I have woken up at 4:30 several times, and have always found my Seiko divers to be easily readable. It also only takes about a minute for my eyes to adjust to the dark, so I don't know about the destroying night vision part.

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