Your Watch Lume Pictures

[vavavroom]

Show your watch lume pictures. Radium, strontium-aluminate, tritium, etc - anything goes. You can also post lit displays, whether incandescent, electroluminescent, or LED. Also LED displays and whatever weird things are out there. Smartwatches okay, if you absolutely must. I think not disclosing the watch models may be more interesting. No stock pictures, please. The hands do not have to be set at 10:10 like in an advertising image but none of the hands should completely overlap. The images should be taken in near or in complete darkness.

I'll start

Diver: plongeur/diversword hands. Oversized minute hand because that's the important one when diving. Lollypop second hand, I suppose.


GMT: batons hands for minutes and hours, lollypop second hand, GMT arrow hand

 

[Kira]

Cool idea. Shots like these make for a good presentation.

 

[law3500]

Here are some of my recent ones...

 

[vavavroom]

That's a torch.

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[vavavroom]

This watch has the date window at 0900 and that's why the 1000 numeral is partially cropped.

 

[vavavroom]

@Hermann, come on, show us some glow!

 

[Gebrekkend]

 

[Gebrekkend]

 

[Speedy3861]

Hint: Been on every moon mission

 

[vavavroom]

Hint: Been on every moon mission
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Alexei Leonov wore a Poljot Strela during a Moon mission. Not on the Moon. The Bulova Lunar Pilot made it to the Moon. After the crystal popped off Dave Scott's Speedy he wore his own Bulova on the Moon.

 

[vavavroom]

That's an over 30-year-old chronograph I had the hands and dial relumed some time ago.

 

[vavavroom]

This watch has syringe hands with unlumed tips. You can see the minute hand tip overlapping the number 4 numeral.

 

[vavavroom]

There are some reflections of the polished case. I was too lazy to remove them.

 

[Speedy3861]

Alexei Leonov wore a Poljot Strela during a Moon mission. Not on the Moon. The Bulova Lunar Pilot made it to the Moon. After the crystal popped off Dave Scott's Speedy he wore his own Bulova on the Moon.

And Aldrin's Speedy was the first worn on the moon, Armstrong's was hanging on the instrument panel replacing the failed cabin chronometer.

 

[vavavroom]

And Aldrin's Speedy was the first worn on the moon, Armstrong's was hanging on the instrument panel replacing the failed cabin chronometer.

Ever wonder what they'll wear once they make it back there? G-Shock is most likely because of budgetary reasons and durability.

 

[vavavroom]

Not lume but the LED display of a 50-year-old wristwatch. The numerals are under 3 mm tall but super-crisp unlike in the photo. When I was a kid the glow reminded me of Darth Vader's lightsaber. Unlike modern retro LED watches the numerals are not only much smaller but the segments are much tighter with very minute gaps in between. That's how you can tell an old LED watch from a modern one immediately. Compare to the display of the current YEMA retro-LED watch if you like.


The technology is fascinating, especially for the early '70s. Here is the module. I had to replace the batteries and figured I might as well remove the module and take a few pictures of it. The metallic capsule contains the massive quartz oscillator crystal. It' is much larger than what you find in a modern quartz watch. You can also see a potentiometer that can be used to adjust the speed at which the watch runs. Modern quartz watches normally do not have this feature. This watch is very accurate even by today's standard at no more than 2 seconds off per month. I don't know who the manufacturer of the module was but Hamilton was the company that developed the modules and Pulsar made them.


The LED display has microscopic wiring that is fractionally the width of a human hair. Solder this! After 50 years all the wiring and solder joints are intact despite being exposed to air and not being embedded in resin or anything. Great care has to be taken when handling this module. Each numeral is a hair under 3 mm tall and consists of seven segments. Each segment is wired. This display is constructed unlike a modern numerical LED display. Millimeter scale with 0.5 mm resolution for scale. The ruler was 2 mm closer to the phone camera than the LED display distorting the apparent scale a bit.

 

[vavavroom]

Another diver

 

[Gebrekkend]

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I was wondering why my photo looked weird. I guess the chapter ring was reflecting some of the lume.

 

[vavavroom]

I was wondering why my photo looked weird. I guess the chapter ring was reflecting some of the lume.

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Yes.

 

[Hermann]

@Hermann, come on, show us some glow!

I'll get some pics this afternoon when the bedroom gets dark enough. I have 5 watches with good lume. Once put my Omega Seamaster c.2007 up against the Erebus Origin overnight, the Omega won but close. Pic below is a Seiko 5KX green camo dial, modded with lumed ceramic bezel. This pic was in my computer. Sorry, its a bit out of focus.