My lume has just appeared! Why is that?

[TaketheCannoli]

Evening,

Your expertise is required here as I'm at a loss to explain this. I recently bought an Ollech & Wasj military watch and although delighted with it, it had absolutely no lume whatsoever on the dial or the hands. It wasn't a deal breaker for me so I could live with it.

Before I ever wore it I took it off the leather strap it came on and got it on a nato and it looked great. Out of interest today I put it back on the leather and it looks even better now.

Here's the wierd bit - it now has cracking lume on all dial markings and the hands!

Why would that be?

Cheers,

David

[chris2982]

Possibly due to it being in darkness for so long it just needed to soak up some rays 8)

Chris.

[robcuk]

Sore Arse this morning?
Maybe you were abducted by aliens last night?

[Huertecilla]

..or dust from Fukushima ganging up with the vulcanic cloud and the mix falling through a hole in the tims-space continuüm.

[W44NNE]

Might try this on my seiko :lol:

[stooo]

Post Rapture lume syndrome.

[NORVAL]

You are not alone.
It happen the same thing to me on a more expensive watch : IWC alarm Titanium.
It can be dead lume from midnight to 4 AM, and after that period it glows !!!.
I can not explain it either ??????.
Help is needed from the TZ forum friends with 600000000000 posts :lol:
Pedro

[HappyJack]

If it's tritium, particularly aged tritium, it won't respond to light the same way as luminova, ie, you won't get the immediate glow from charging it. However, after a few hours of darkness with your eyes becoming accustomed to the dark, the tritium will appear to be glowing more strongly than the luminova, which will have lost much of its charge. Truth is that the tritium doesn't need charging with light to glow - the radioactivity is what makes that happen; it just takes night adaptation for your eyes to see it.

[NORVAL]

Thank's Jack.
Could be the correct explanation, I think the IWC is using titrium.
After all, a clever answer from a TZ forum friend with 300 posts !!!.
Pedro

[MPH2OSkier]

Was it a Full Moon, or perhaps the tide was in? I'd check your Horoscope! :-)

[TaketheCannoli]

As expected, a nice mix of serious and p*** taking responses. That's why I love this forum! :lol:

Cheers,

David

[Dibetu]

I have the same on an old Orfina watch with tritium hands and indexes. If I load it with a full 12 hours of direct sunlight it will glow very well and through the whole night; even after 25 years. But a couple a minutes under a lamp have no effect at all.