BOLDR Journey Watch - now with free NATO strap

Yes, I've confirmed that my Nighthawk has lumed hands, arabic numerals, and the 5-minute-mark divisions. It's not great lume, but it's lume. I've got other watches with fantastic lume: Notably, my Lum-Tec B33 and my Steinhart Titanium 500. Both of which glow in broad daylight. The dial lume on this watch sort-of looks lumed for a few minutes, in pitch black conditions. The minute hands are brighter, but not nuclear glow like my other two references are. When I went back and grabbed all of my crappy watches and compared them for reference ... The BOLDR is literally the dimmest lumed watch that I own. Worse that my Timexes, worse than my crappy diver homages from China, worse anything else that I own. But as I said, this isn't really a tool watch. It's an aesthetically pleasing microbrand watch with a cool mecha-quartz movement that you can wear to the office.

So your watch actually has lume? My nighthawk came yesterday, and has no lume whatsoever. Unfortunate for a sandwich dial. I agree that the stock strap is meh. I immediately took mine off and put it on a nice brown leather zulu strap that I already had. I do like the overall vintage look of the watch, but at this point, I can't say if it will be a long-term possession. Might just be a quick flip, after a couple months of waiting for the actual shipment.

Edit: Never mind, was mixing it up with another Seiko Mecha-Quartz watch I received a week or so back. The one that shipped from MD for this drop was a black leather strap, same as yours. I agree that the brown shown as advertised would have been better. This was just an odd Drop all around. Screwed up orders .. pictures not matching photos. I've purchased dozens of things from MD, and they've all gone smoother than this drop.