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The other day someone remarked in one of the Pelagos threads that they didn't like the lume on the Pelagos, thought it was overdone and made the watch look like a toy at night. I guess everyone's entitled to their opinion, but that's one opinion in particular that I do not share!
I think the quality, brightness and longevity of the luminous dial and bezel on the Tudor Pelagos is among the very best out there and that's saying something. True, I haven't been able to compare the Pelagos directly with the newer Rolex SubC/DSSD lume, which might indeed be the same, secret stuff, but my 16610 Sub can't hold a candle (pardon the pun!) to my Pelagos. My next best is the GO Navigator Panodate and until the Pelagos came along I believed that guy was the contender for ultimate lume, but not anymore!
As for brightness with a fresh, full charge, it's pretty hard to tell one great lume dial from another, but it's in the deeps of the night, with no ambient available light to keep it going, that the Pelagos dial has put all the others to shame. This is the first watch I've ever had that is still completely clear, bright and legible after 8 or 9 hours (or really, all night long) and which continues to amaze me every time I check the time in the wee hours.
Caveat: I admit, I also own a Luminox watch (and I think Ball watches have this too) with those tritium gas tubes that will "out-glo" anything, but even that dial isn't as bright, or as fine as the Pelagos at 4am. Tritium gas tubes are a lume of another color (so to speak) and IMO doesn't really compare, as you can't define numbers, shapes, etc., with those little tubes, the way you can with Luminova/Chromalight/Whatever it's called.
To me, one of the more important traits of a true Tool Watch, is that is must be legible and easy to read at all times and under all lighting conditions. I have and have had some pretty good tool watches over the years, but so far, nothing has really come close to the midnight legibility of the Pelagos.
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I think the quality, brightness and longevity of the luminous dial and bezel on the Tudor Pelagos is among the very best out there and that's saying something. True, I haven't been able to compare the Pelagos directly with the newer Rolex SubC/DSSD lume, which might indeed be the same, secret stuff, but my 16610 Sub can't hold a candle (pardon the pun!) to my Pelagos. My next best is the GO Navigator Panodate and until the Pelagos came along I believed that guy was the contender for ultimate lume, but not anymore!
As for brightness with a fresh, full charge, it's pretty hard to tell one great lume dial from another, but it's in the deeps of the night, with no ambient available light to keep it going, that the Pelagos dial has put all the others to shame. This is the first watch I've ever had that is still completely clear, bright and legible after 8 or 9 hours (or really, all night long) and which continues to amaze me every time I check the time in the wee hours.
Caveat: I admit, I also own a Luminox watch (and I think Ball watches have this too) with those tritium gas tubes that will "out-glo" anything, but even that dial isn't as bright, or as fine as the Pelagos at 4am. Tritium gas tubes are a lume of another color (so to speak) and IMO doesn't really compare, as you can't define numbers, shapes, etc., with those little tubes, the way you can with Luminova/Chromalight/Whatever it's called.
To me, one of the more important traits of a true Tool Watch, is that is must be legible and easy to read at all times and under all lighting conditions. I have and have had some pretty good tool watches over the years, but so far, nothing has really come close to the midnight legibility of the Pelagos.
