In Greek mythology, day and night are governed by different gods, and the day is born by the night god. In the real world, the appearance of a watch in the night may be exactly the same as that of the day. We do not need to pursue the philosophical significance of alternating the day and night, because it is sufficient and fun to explore a luminous watch from the perspective of literary arts and technology.
Rolex SUBMARINER watch
Night aesthetic
Some expressed the appearance of ferocious publicity, the night will become gentle and quiet, and some tables calm and dull during the day, and one night will suddenly gorgeous as fireworks. Watch table play table can not be held for a while, things are the same. Indifferent to the surface and the truth, perhaps only this moment, one moment. What we are going to say this time is a luminous watch in the eyes of a literary fan and technology.
Rolex SUBMARINER watch
See you during the day you will be somewhat fancy "California side", in the dark you will find it graceful: half Roman numeral half Arabic numerals dial design, in the dark all the details of the case surface is omitted, only the luminous pointer And scale, the form of the table will break monotonous, it is interesting. And importantly, reading is easy in the dark, and if each scale is simple and consistent, it's hard to tell where it is. And about this famous "California side", probably will be Panerai and Rolex fans in mind more than entangled (in the words of "California side" was originally specialized in the production of precision instruments Panerai commissioned by the Italian Navy commissioned Which uses a Rolex movement and crown technology, and this number 3464 "California side" Rolex Panerai watches, has become the darling of the watch collection industry). Panerai was also "cutely" choreographed for the Italian navy once again "lying guns" for a long time to come. However, it is undeniable that Panerai and Rolex in the luminous technology continues to explore.
The readability of the night time, most of the watch approach is to use different shapes on the key scale to make a distinction, such as Rolex 12 o'clock is usually inverted triangle, and Panerai is best known as the typical 369 type, that is, in the 3,6,9 scale with Arabic numerals. Of course, this clear luminous display, but also had to mention Panerai famous sandwich sandwich dial so that the luminous material to maximize effectiveness. The Rolex does not admit defeat, the widely welcomed "Mercedes-Benz Needle" is in the hour on the "Mercedes-Benz" shape to increase the luminous range, so that you can in the most simple way to identify the time.
Boll table "lantern", then not only from the form to color to distinguish. The blue gas lamp is on the minute scale, the 12 o'clock gas lamp is orange, the green gas lamp is on the chronograph chronograph hand, and the yellow gas lamp is on the hour, minute and second hand. In completely dark space, look quite brave during the day an adventure watch, into a fireworks fireworks night sky.
Panerai Composite material watch PAM386
Luminous endless
Next, the technical control will tell you that the legend of luminous actually with the progress of science and technology of chemical physics are closely related. Just as the concept of stargazing is not only small and fresh, the essence is astronomy.
The earliest pocket watch is generally no luminous. The earliest luminous, mostly radium salt, painted on the table needle and nail next to. The Panerai, Rolex, etc. have used this luminous. See this famous "radium", you know, there must be a story. Because the open mirror, the human body can be directly exposed to radioactive elements, coupled with radium salt is also easy to corrosion table heart, although the daily wear contact dose is very small, but the basic has not been used.
Panerai in the dark
Instead of radium coating is tritium. A modern watch with the theme of the Boer table, the use of tritium rays to stimulate the principle of light, the form of tritium gas pipe to form "self-luminous micro-gas lamp" to produce a large number of various effects in the night luminous luminous effect. According to a private gossip users, not feeling anything special, to the dark field, and even can be used as a flashlight.
In addition, the third light-emitting method, is the most common common fluorescent light storage material. By receiving light energy, slowly released in the dark, luminous intensity gradually weakened. In recent years, Rolex has made new progress in this respect. In 2008, Rolex first applied CHROMALIGHT fluorescent material to the diver's professional watch Oyster Perpetual DEEPSEA, which has a waterproof depth of 3,900 meters. This calm blue light, compared with the general standard fluorescent material, the light-emitting time is almost doubled. Luminous intensity remained steady during a complete dive and was maintained for more than 8 hours. Since then, Rolex extends this technology to other popular series. Basel this year, the Oyster Perpetual submariner and yacht Mingshi other major models have adopted this technology.
This era does not pay attention to the evening clothes, and the time cycle will not stop due to alternating day and night, so, whether it is technically or in the aesthetic sense, more than time, glittering.