Late Night Lume and the white 300M versus green?

Hi everyone,

I purchased my delightful white seamaster 300M last summer. Love the watch with one exception - I find some time , I cannot read the skeleton hands next to my bed in the middle of the night, even after being activated w/a UV flashlight. They just seem to fade in too much. Not a huge deal, but I like to look at my watch when I wake up instead of tapping a phone or having a lit alarm clock.

Flash forward to Christmas and, under the tree, was a green 300M from my family. They knew I was "pine-ing" ( see what I did there) over it. Same great watch - different color gives me totally different times to wear it.

The watches are, of course, the same - with one exception. Next to my bed in the middle of the night - I can read the green watch much longer into the night. My best guess is that the darker face holds the glowing hand out in just enough starker relief, so it is easier to read once the lume begins to fade. However, on too close and possibly inaccurate inspection , I suspect - but can't really tell - if the architecture of the hands isn't subtlety different, with an increased surface area of lume on the non-black handset.

I don't have pics to post on this because my iPhone isn't really equipped to grab the lume difference or the minute conspiracy-theory-difference on lume surface area that I may or may not be seeing.

Anyone else have experience with this?

I don't have one to compare but I can read my green Seamaster all night as needed just from normal daylight and interior light charging. Of course, the sword hands on my 2254.50 are better but all that matters is that they're legible.

I wanted to chime in as I own the grey/chrome version of the SMP300. This is the only real disappointment of the watch is night time lume of the skeleton hands. I am one of those people who wears my watch to sleep. It is very hard to read time in the middle of the night. I would recommend all those that do need to read time in the middle of night to skip atleast the grey verison. It also doesn't help that the minute hand lume lands right on the markers lume. I just wear my galaxy watch to sleep now instead of trying to squint 🥱 at my SMP300.

UPDATE : So, I had a weekend with a lot of family / friend events and staying in a hotel. My green seamaster was with me as my companion. BUT, I'd neglected to bring a UV flashlight - a normal thing in my travel bag. Even with just "normal lume" activation, I could read the time at 5am in the dark and later.Something that would have been a challenge with my white dial.