Product Description
Swiss quartz movement, Sport watch, Luminous hands and traser indices, Brushed stainless steel bezel, crown, case and screw-in caseback, Analog date display, Single o-ring crown, Tempered scratch resistant mineral glass crystal, 50 meters/165 feet water resistant
I have had this piece for 8 months now and hardly wear it. Partly because the band is a little snug. And no one to blame but myself. This deployment style band is cool--- but you only get one shot at cutting it properly.
If you get this watch make your errors to the plus size when fitting the band.
The Watch functios well enough but remains my least favorite of my Luminox collection. Wouldn't buy this unless it was a great deal.
Luminox is a relatively recent brand that slaps its name on watches that someone else makes. I have an original luminox Navy Seal watch (also available from Smith & Wesson and a number of other "manufacturers"), which I love. Both that watch and this one are waterproof, accurate and glow in the dark. Most watches glow in the dark if you shine light on them first. The big claim to fame of Luminox watches is that they glow in the dark all the time, through the use of a radioactive form of hydrogen called tritium.
Here are some nitpicky things:
1, The watches are often erroneously marked as having a sapphire crystal face. My understanding is that they use mineral glass for the face, but neither of my watches have any significant scratches. The glass on the 715 watch protrudes over the top of the stainless steel case, and may be prone to scratching.
2, Tritium has a half-life of 12 years. That's sufficiently short that I've noticed my original Luminox is dimmer than when I first got it. The tritium in these watches is NOT harmful, as the type of radiation produced would not even penetrate skin, let alone the materials of the watch.
3, This watch is bigger than it appears in photos.
4, The resin strap is very thick and does not bend much for small wrists. However, unlike some of Luminox's straps, it can be cut down for small wrists. So, I now have the bizarre situation that there's plenty of room for my wrist, but it pinches at the bottom. Adjustment is permanent, and easy to get wrong, so take it slowly.
5, The Luminox seal is not printed on the dial, but just stuck on. Mine was stuck on at an angle...
6, The dial itself has tick marks on it, so that you can easily see which minute you are on. Unfortunately, these minute marks do not line up with the minute hand when the second hand is at 0. Oh, and the second hand does not glow, unlike some other Luminox watches.
Ok, so those are the small gripes. In the end, this watch looks good, if a little bigger than you might expect. It is also waterproof enough for swimming in a pool and showering. The case feels very solid, but the inner workings seem much flimsier than watches I've had from this company in the past. My first was DOA and needed to be returned to Amazon, even after I had the battery replaced. On the second one, the dial is crooked and the second hand looks like it might fall off at any moment. All in all, this watch barely meets my expectations and I would think twice before ordering another watch from this company. But I do already own two, and you'd be surprised how handy their (almost) unique glow-in-the-dark feature is.
The watch is handsome enough, but there are some significant problems:
1, It's bigger than it looks, and that includes a very thick resin band.
2, The strap is the least adjustable in creation. Once adjusted, it can never be re-adjusted.
3, This watch is clearly designed for big wrists. The strap is now too tight for me, even though I have 2-3 mm of space between the sides of my wrist and the strap! How has that happened? The strap does not bend enough and so will not hug my wrist.
4, The strap fastening is painful, even when properly adjusted, with sharp metal corners to dig in to your wrist.
5, The first one was DOA. I had the battery changed and it was still dead.
6, The tritium does not glow very brightly. It's bright enough to see, but it is exactly as bright as the Luminox I got 8 years ago. FYI, tritium loses half its brightness every 12 years or so.
7, The glass protrudes above the top of the metal frame and will therefore scratch relatively easily (it is NOT a sapphire crystal, although for this price it probably should be).
So, in summary, the watch is reasonably attractive but ultimately overpriced and hard to adjust. That having been said, it is one of the few watches that will clamp reliably and firmly to my wrist, and I can just about wear it for the whole day.
About Luminox Men's 700 Series Silver Series Red Watch #715 detail
- Amazon Sales Rank: #6721 in Watches
- Brand: Luminox
- Model: 715
- Band material: polyurthethane
- Bezel material: stainless-steel
- Case material: stainless-steel
- Clasp type: butterfly-clasp
- Dial color: red
- Dial window material: Mineral
- Movement type: swiss-quartz
- Water-resistant to 165 feet
Features
- Swiss-quartz movement
- Mineral crystal
- Case diameter: 42 mm
- Stainless-steel case; Red dial; Date function
- Water-resistant to 50 M (165 feet)
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