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| Joined: | Fri Feb 6th, 2009 |
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Ya ... I really like the lumed bezel on the SD :)
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I would say from quick observations that the initial brightness of the lume on the bezel is good for maybe the first 15 minutes or so. After that you would have to stare at it for a few seconds to see the lume.
However, from what I noticed last night after my watch saw about 15min. of daylight, (then left to sit in the washroom), the overall lume on the bezel lasted just a bit over an hour from what I would say is 'usable'. It was at the point where I couldn't see the numbers clearly on the bezel, as they looked like blobs of lume at best, but the markers at the 5min. intervals were noticeable enough if I stared at the watch for a few seconds (like 4-6 seconds I would say). The dial face numbers and dial hands were still very good at this time.
Actually, out of curiosity to see how much lume was still available on certain parts of the watch, I did take a quick peek again about 1.5 hours later. The bezel lume was all but gone at this time, the numbers on the dial face were a lot dimmer, but were still identifiable/readable if you stared at it for a few seconds. The dial hands were glowing a lot better than the numbers on the dial face of course. I would guess that the dial hands seem to be about double the brightness of the numbers on the dial face at this point in time.
I never went back to see when the dial hands actually became to dim to be usable though.
RVS1111