Panerai Replica Luminosity

[alant]

Hi dear all, just curious I saw some pictures of the Panerai replicas here, the luminosity glow is pretty intense. And some are as good as the gen ones. Over at Singapore, I find that my piece the glow is not impressive at all, in fact after the lights are off, it glows very slightly (pretty pale) and within like 2-3 minutes not glowing already. Is that normal? Would appreciate any kind feedback. Thanks.

[FxrAndy]

I have a Fiddy with davidsen hands that are aledgedly SL, they glow like mad, my dial direct from Andrew glows just a bit less, both are readable after 8 hours in the dark. My Wife has a 217, that loses it after 6 hours and my vintage after about 5 hours also, bear in mind these are sandwich dials and relatively expensive ones $200 plus.

By the way welcome to RWG, how about an introduction?

[sssurfer]

Davidsen's are lumed with SuperLuminova (SL) and therefore their glowing is like the genuines (not always the same about nuance, though).

All other reps vary between an almost-fake lume and a pretty decent one. Not at the same level of SL, though.

Usually (but not always, e.g. the low-cost 104 from Josh has a decent lume in spite of its low price) the lume quality correlates with the watch price and the collectors' claims for extra-lume, stunning-lume, or so. Be adviced that "super lume" is not a synonim for SL, and "super lumed" is not a synonim for "lumed with SL".

And usually the hands have a better lume than the dial.

[JOEJOEJOE]

Even Gen Pams (recent models with "L" dial) aren't supposed to glow that long.

They just glow super bright for very short time.