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Hog Feet said:
Looks like a poor man's Panerai! I might have to get one as a beater watch!
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Lum-Tec's are far from cheap watches. Their customer service and quality is just fantastic. They are kind of like the Sebenza's of knives IMHO.
 
BBQ BOY said:
Lum-Tec's are far from cheap watches. Their customer service and quality is just fantastic. They are kind of like the Sebenza's of knives IMHO.
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They're cheap compared to the price tag of a PAM ~ $7K.
 
BBQ BOY said:
Well of course it is.
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That's all that Hog Feat was saying, not that the quality was cheap. They quality of these watches is top of the line, combined with the attention to detail, customer service, support, and overall quality they're definitely not 'cheap watches'. I'd take an LT over a PAM any day.
 
somber said:
I'd take an LT over a PAM any day.
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To each his own. Given the choice between a Panerai and a watch made by a recently started company which uses Seiko and Miyota movements I'd pick the former every time. Comparing the two would be orders of magnitude larger than comparing a G-shock and a Fossil....

Hog Feet - While the case says 'Panerai' the dial screams 'Sinn' in my eyes.

Lucky - Apologies for thoroughly derailing your thread. If you like the Luminox then by all means go for it. In the end what any of us like doesn't matter, you're the one who's wearing the watch.
 
BlackHills said:
To each his own. Given the choice between a Panerai and a watch made by a recently started company which uses Seiko and Miyota movements I'd pick the former every time. Comparing the two would be orders of magnitude larger than comparing a G-shock and a Fossil....
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One, they're using ETA movements for the new collection.

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Two, with the former you're also spending $6,000 more, and even then, I'd rather buy a JLC Reverso with that kind of funds.
 
Interesting, the LÜM-TEC M28 is using a SOPROD 9040, which is the same movement in a PAM28, for less than 1/4 the price.
 
BlackHills said:
To each his own. Given the choice between a Panerai and a watch made by a recently started company which uses Seiko and Miyota movements I'd pick the former every time. Comparing the two would be orders of magnitude larger than comparing a G-shock and a Fossil....

Hog Feet - While the case says 'Panerai' the dial screams 'Sinn' in my eyes.

Lucky - Apologies for thoroughly derailing your thread. If you like the Luminox then by all means go for it. In the end what any of us like doesn't matter, you're the one who's wearing the watch.
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The newer Lum-Tec's are made in Switzerland or the movements are at least. One or the other.
 
BBQ BOY said:
The newer Lum-Tec's are made in Switzerland or the movements are at least. One or the other.
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All the watches are assembled personally by Chris Wiegand in the USA, the movements are purchased as ebauches from ETA for the M-Automatics as well as the M-Tungsten, or Seiko Watch Group for the B Combat line, and then the movements are tuned by him personally as well. Black Hills is right about LÜM-TEC using Miyota quartz movements, but I think this is negligible, as I doubt that a Swiss quartz movement is going to be any better than a Japanese quartz movement (unless we're talking about the Bulova Precisionist - which is by far the most amazing quartz movement). It is evident that he is overall uninformed about the company as a whole, though.

My M19 was running at +/- 2 seconds per day which is within COSC standards. My B2 Carbon is running at +/- 4 seconds per day, which is still within COSC standards of +/- 6 seconds.
 
Hahah thanks everyone, i think at this point I need to just go find some and try them on to see what works best.
 
Do it to it! Looks like a good deal.

As a reference, charging simply means wearing the watch and allowing it to be exposed to normal light. I don't 'power' mine up with a flashlight and it's still visible all night, but with tritium it'll be the same brightness all night long, and at the same level as if I were to 'charge' mine up - which is a great ability.
 
somber said:
G-Shocks, not bad if you're a fourteen year-old.
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True dat.

They aren't bad for a 48 year old either. But only if you like having a watch that is more accurate than any of the others talked about here because it syncs itself with an atomic clock every day, never requires a battery, and tells you the barometric pressure, air temp and altitude.

But at least these $600 watches do give you an estimation of the actual time. :) Just joking.
 
Not to keep the thread drift going, but...

GSHOCKs...
powernoodle said:
never requires a battery
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The solar atomics still need batteries. I had to change one of mine and it was ~$60 for the new battery. My watch guy usually charges ~$10 for a new battery, so I was really surprised at the $60 bill. I only paid something like $80 for the watch new.

It was about 5 years old. I have another one that is still going on the first battery but it spends more time in the drawer. Maybe I got a bad one? Or I had it in the light too much and it had too many charge cycles?

I'm not ripping on Casio. Solar Atomics are one of my favorites. But there's still a battery in it. And eventually it will need changing. And apparently it's an expensive battery.
 
stieg said:
Not to keep the thread drift going, but...

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The solar atomics still need batteries. I had to change one of mine and it was ~$60 for the new battery. My watch guy usually charges ~$10 for a new battery, so I was really surprised at the $60 bill. I only paid something like $80 for the watch new.

It was about 5 years old. I have another one that is still going on the first battery but it spends more time in the drawer. Maybe I got a bad one? Or I had it in the light too much and it had too many charge cycles?

I'm not ripping on Casio. Solar Atomics are one of my favorites. But there's still a battery in it. And eventually it will need changing. And apparently it's an expensive battery.
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It's kind of the same with mobile phone batteries, they charge you $100 for the new battery but in reality you're paying $70 for the brand name/perception that you're getting a quality product and $30 for the Li-Ion battery. You can get the small primary lithium button cells for like $2 each if you buy enough.
 
jasonp said:
nothing wrong with Quarts, accurate, dependable but run far far away from luminox. QC is bad and Customer Service is worse.
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word. quarts are way better than gallons, but not nearly as precise as tablespoons.

and I thought that the sebenza was the sebenza of knives?
 
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