Will The Real Ar Coating Please Stand Up!

[Guest submersible24g]

I for one am sick and tired of dealers and factories claiming their watches have "light AR". As far as I am concerned, "light AR" means NO AR to me. It either "has" AR or it "does not" have AR.

From now on if a watch is avdertised as "light AR" I am passing it by. nothing worse than strapping on a Pam with no AR unless its a vintage. nothing worse than putting on a Breitling and no AR. or an Omega PO with no AR. might as well grabbed a $20 Timex at Walmart and wrote "PANERAI" in sharpie across the dial IMHO.

When we want AR crystals, this is what we want. now who's with me????

Edited December 3, 2006 by submersible24g

[tvt]

Most PAMs I have seen with "AR coating" is just that fake light blue film. It certainly does ot make it less reflective, it only makes the reflection blue! Actual AR does just that, eliminates reflection!

[Watchmeister]

I always intrepret light AR as either cheap coating or no coating simply showing the slight hue that sapphire shows at certain angles.

[rek001]

I have only one watch with AR - a gen UN 1846 Chronometer, when you look at it stright on you really can't see the crystal reflection, you fell like you could reach and touch the dial - it's uncanny. It's actually a bit unsettling.

I haven't seen a rep with true AR coating yet.

[Guest submersible24g]

thats exactly how my genuine Chonomat Evo is. its crazy to look at the dial straight on. almost as if there were no crystal at all.

look at these two shots. one is my gen Evo and the other is the rep Evo. both have AR but notice on the genuine that the window reflection you can barely see. both watches were at the same angle. but the rep you can clearly see the window reflection in the corner.

Edited December 2, 2006 by submersible24g

[mezzanine]

By far the biggest issue for me with reps.

I would rather have minor flaws in the dial layout than no AR...seriously.

Luminova is even a far more secondary issue for me.

[AMK000]

I will also agree.

The "light AR" is mainly and frankly speaking pure crap.

A watch with no AR is like a watch with a mirror on the crystal. You can comb your hair but you can't see the time. It really "kills" the watch.

The worst effect of it (lack of AR) you get it on black and blue dial watches.

Is a bit less annoying on white dials and much better with acrylic crystals (mainly vintage watches).

[hk45ca]

I have only one watch with AR - a gen UN 1846 Chronometer, when you look at it stright on you really can't see the crystal reflection, you fell like you could reach and touch the dial - it's uncanny. It's actually a bit unsettling.

I haven't seen a rep with true AR coating yet.

the ar on my 195 from davidsen and my 113 and navitimer from ruby is exactly like the ar on my new glasses from my eye doctor.

you can see the reflection from the light in it's normal color and you see a blue reflection right next to it. the only difference is the 195 is more blue-purplel than my watches from ruby or my glasses, like the ar is heavier on it or something.