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For way too long now, I've been lusting after a watch with H3 tritium
vials. I've always been a sucker for things that
glow in the dark (my first watch was the original Timex Indiglo, after
all), and luminescence is a big part of why I collect dive watches. A friend of mine recently bought a Ball Fireman, and after being completely mesmerized by the little glowing
glass tubes inside, I decided it was time to get serious about tritium.
I looked at everything from Ball to Luminox, however my curiosity was particularly piqued by Traser H3 Watches. Traser is owned by mb-microtec, the company that actually holds
the patent for tritium H3 illumination technology.
They have an entire lineup of watches that include divers,
chronographs, and military watches. Buried deep in their web site I
found the Traser Classic series: plain and simple stainless steel watches
that house the fantastic ETA 2824 movement — the same movement found in my
Bathys 100 Fathom and my Tissot Seastar 1000.
The Classic
Automatic is the only automatic model in Traser's lineup, and it comes in
four styles:
- Stainless steel with a white dial.
- Stainless steel with a black dial.
- PVD with a black dial.
- PVD with a black dial and blue
tritium tubes.
Coincidentally, my collection needed a white dialed watch, so the decision was easy.
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