Luminox Watches

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Luminox Watches

Luminox Watches are the official watches of the U.S. Navy Seals and U.S. Air Force. This only means one thing: Luminox Watches are of the highest quality watches available and are made to standards that are set above any other watch ever made.

Luminox, meaning "light night" in Latin, was selected as the name of this company and its watches in order to emphasize the superlative illumination system utilized in the Luminox watch collection.

When Luminox was originally contacted by a procurement officer for the U.S. Navy Seals, Luminox, along with the help of Swiss associates, spent 9 months developing the initial Navy Seal dive watch that launched in 1994. After selling hundreds of thousands of the original plastic model, Luminox launched its first steel version (with carbon fiber bezel) of the SEAL watch in 1999. This Luminox Watch became an Instant best seller. Naturally, Luminox Watches continued to develop additions to their incredible line of Luminox Watches, and soon an all steel and titanium series of Luminox watches was made available in the fall of 2000.

What does the future of Luminox Watches have in store? More great innovation and advancement, for one. Presently, Luminox is in development of an entirely new ultimate Navy SEAL dive watch, as well as an entire range of aviator Luminox watches as part of the "Lockheed Collection" that will be tied to specific jets including the F-117 Nighthawk, the F-16 Viper and Fighting Falcon, the Joint Strike Fighter, the F-22 Raptor (a supplemental Stealth jet), the SR-71 Blackbird (record setting jet of the 1960s), and even the Venture Star (the next Space Shuttle), thus linking Luminox Watches to NASA!

Luminox Watch Technology

All Luminox watches undergo additional manufacturing steps that no other watch in the world requires. The Luminox self-powered illumination system must be installed in each and every watch. It is a costly and time-consuming endeavor but it is what makes Luminox watches special and different from all other watches in the world. It is our raison d'etre. Each watch employs tiny self-powered micro gas  lights developed by the world leader in the luminous compound industry.  These micro gas lights (borosilicate glass capsules) are installed into the hands, hour markers, and when necessary, bezels of Luminox watches. Luminox watches need no external light source to "charge" the paint on the dial or hands in order to glow as do conventional luminous watches.  Nor do they require a push of a button to light the dial as do watches with electro luminescence. The US military has long recognized the advantages of micro gas light sources and their use is specified in procurement specification MIL-W-6374F.

Luminox Watch Features

All Luminox watches feature:

• The ultimate illumination system
• Glows continuously for more than 25 years
• Glows 100 times brighter than other luminous watches
• Swiss illumination system is self-powered
• No need to push button or expose to light to activate illumination system
• Illumination guaranteed for 10 years
• Entirely Swiss made with multi-jewel Swiss quartz watch movement
• Water and Shock resistant

Luminox Watches