A soldier might require a glow-in-the-dark watch dial for legibility while for others it might simply elicit a childlike sense of wonder. The most common way for watchmakers to achieve this effect ...

A Lume Alternative: Tritium Gas Tubes The P68 Pathfinder Automatic from Traser, owned by the same company (MB Microtec) that supplies other watch companies with tritium gas tubes.It uses tritium tubes ...

Another difference: the inclusion of MaraGlo, which is usually reserved for the non-tritium watches. The Jeep SARs still have the tritium tubes, but the chunkier Arabic numerals are now done up in ...

Tritium isn't as overtly dangerous as other luminescent wristwatch materials like radium. Which famously made the jaws of the workers making the watches fall off after dipping their paintbrushes ...