What on earth are B&R using to lume their Phantom watches?

[Tom]

I've been thinking about this for a while and even emailed B&R who were no help (They said it's a unique photoluminescant paint...yeah right)

How do they do it? I have spoken to well known luming experts who have all said they're not sure how it can be done.

They all use Tritec products and cannot see how something can be mixed to produce something that dark which lights up.

I have held a gen Phanton BR01-92 and put it under a halogen lamp for a minute then turned the lights out. It doesn't get close to what they claim but it still glows in the dark. The nearest I have got is a kind of light grey which I made from Noctilumina products. It lights up all right but it's still nowhere near that dark colour.

Anyone know or guess how they do it?

[Usil]

They probably use normal lume and apply a translucent grey overcoat on it.

Usil

[Tom]

Seeing as I can NEVER load any images onto RWG as they are always too large (even a 20kb one!!!), here is the link to an image of what the Phantom actually glows like - not as they show on the websites but more like C3

http://www.matsukidesignsolutions.com/phantom1.jpg

[Tom]

I've got word back from Tritec that it's actually a special dark lume that they make. Lets hope some of the people who do are luming jobs order some so we can get some great looking Phantoms going!!

[inmotion]

actually, BR are not the only ones using black lume.

check ou the nixon 51-30 barney's edition