New Seamaster Pro 300, weak lume in circle indices

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·May 17, 2022

All, just got my brand new SMP 300. Everything looks good to go.... Except the lume on the circle indices seem to have significantly worse lume and luminosity than the hands and the bar indices. See attached pictures. Is this a known issue?
Note, it's hard to see in the first lume photo bit is easier to see in the "twilight' ones. The lume in the center of the circle indices is significantly and noticably brighter than the surrounding lume. It almost looks like the lume is sick.
Thanks

 

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mrchen

·May 17, 2022

The circular lume plots in your photos don't seem that much darker but this is a "problem" that you will encounter with nearly every watch on every price bracket. Applied indices are only so large and the different shapes will mean different volumes of lume in each shape. If it makes you feel any better Submariners act the exact same way, but opposite, with the circular indices usually lasting longer than the 3 6 9 ones.

 

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flw

·May 17, 2022·history nerd

Looks perfectly good to me, based on the photos.

 

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·May 17, 2022

flw

Looks perfectly good to me, based on the photos.

The camera isn't really capturing it, the eye sees it better.

The lume in all of the circles looks to be worse surrounding the center of the indice. The center glows significantly brighter than the outside diameter of the indice. Image a donut of much darker/less glowing like around a dot of good lume. The 12 3 and 9 indices are all uniform and look great. It seems the luke application in all circle indices went.... Wrong.

 

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Leviathan

·May 19, 2022

Looks good to me. The lume is pretty shyte on this watch to begin with… that might be the issue.

 

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·May 19, 2022

Leviathan

Looks good to me. The lume is pretty shyte on this watch to begin with… that might be the issue.

Lol not really

 

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·May 20, 2022

All, good news ,Omega concurred that the lume wasn't good and I'm getting a new watch.

Here's mine vs the store model

 

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flw

·May 20, 2022·history nerd

I see what you mean now. Good news that you got a replacement!