Does anyone know of a watch with strong superluminova lume intended for a 7 year old kid? Looking for a kids watch that isn't junk, which also has great lume.
I've never seen such a thing and I have two kids I occasionally look for watches for. Also, a typical 7-year old's wrist is pretty tiny. Honestly you're not going to find much that's above a toy in that range. A tough Baby-G might be your best bet, but of course, digital and not analog as your call for Superluminova suggests you want.
Casio f91
Timex metal field 36mm
Lorus lumibright at 37mm
3 good choices right there that are not "toys"
Here is the lorus, my son wears it, an f91 and a cheap pokemon watch, he is 8 years old.
Seiko SCXP157 Quartz Lumibrite Nano Universe I bought this watch a couple of months ago because I have always admired the original Seiko watch after which this one is patterned, but they are difficult to find and extremely expensive. This watch is
Yeah, kiddo is a fan of blue super luminova blue lume glow. Wish there was some kid of small watch for kids that had lume instead of the standard cheapo kids watches. Kid like staring at glowing autos to fall asleep.
You're right, this is going to be a hard question to answer. The typical "need" for strong lume is a dive watch, and nobody makes kid-sized dive watches with proper lume.
Hope I'm not too late-read the thread title and am posting immediately!
If your kid has strong lume you might want to have him checked for radiation exposure.
I bought my 7 yr old a swatch last year, but it’s a piece of crap and has no lum. Very cheaply made. My first watch was a Swatch, I don’t remember mine being as poorly made as the one I got him.
Funny, I was just coming in to ask something similar. My almost 7 year old is a budding watch enthusiast, he has a "lego batman" watch he likes, but doesn't wear it much because it's a little fragile and has poor water resistance. He's always enamored with my "water watch" (I have a 300m Deep Blue Master and an analog G-Shock that I'll wear in our pool, at the beach etc).
I've been searching for kid's dive watches and come up dry. Timex kid's watches are too toylike, as are most kids watches.
Some watch brand is missing out on a way to get kids hooked young!
Marathon GPQ? Small at 34mm, not terribly expensive, tritium tubes will shine for years. Built for military issue. Doesn't have enough WR for swimming, though.
I suppose I should have been more descriptive - kid likes to fall asleep by staring at the second hand of automatic watches that have bright, long lasting (ie. highly visible in the dark) lume. Indiglo, or pressing a button for a light like a baby g wouldn't really work.
It's too bad no one makes a decent automatic for young kids. I see microbrands offering some pretty well built watches with good lume for reasonable prices these days. Wouldn't be a stretch to make a 34mm case with a seiko movement in it for the young ones.
At 38-39mm they are not ridiculously big, not larger than the gizmos kids are wearing these days. My kids love them and wear them everywhere. They are decent quality so I expect them to have these at least until high school, if not longer.
100m WR and tritium hands but the seconds hand is not lumed and they are quartz.
I would think any ladies dive watch would work for a small wrist. This Citizen EP6051 for example is reasonably priced below $100:
It's quartz so the seconds hand will go tick-tick. I think the Seiko SNK suggestion by SPMc is a good one for a mechanical second sweep, far nicer to look at and fall asleep
Give your kid a G-Shock eventually, I wore one for most of my childhood and honestly not sure if any other watch would've survived the kinds of things I did to it. Since I knew it was strong, I'd throw it at walls just to see what would happen (nothing, of course). I still have it lying around, long-since dead since I never changed the batteries, but it really did a great job and never had to leave my wrist (kids can lose things very easily!)
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