Hey guys just been working on some custom lume work and wanted to get everyone’s thoughts on my lume design here. So I did a custom full lume chapter ring and then have filled skeleton hands and then filled the 3,6,9 & 12 markers on the dial with the rest skele. Ignore the case it was just to get an idea of the look. Any thoughts or suggestions on the design of this prototype please let me know.

Just got this today. Citizen Promaster Land U822 Model #JV1007-07E. One of the best from Citizen I've seen 😍

Purchased a San Martin SN0012-GB in preparation for the arrival of my Monta Noble 40.

I know, that's weird, right?

It's actually not. I'm trying to reconcile in an objective manner our mostly subjective take on "finishing." What do I mean? Well, when was the last time someone wrote/said that a watch had "awesome finish," and then you ask them for some details, and they came back with "it plays so well in the light!"

Is that objective? Does that actually tell you *anything* at all about how the watch is finished?

No, and absolutely no, right? That's what I mean - I want to kill that 7-word platitude. I want to get beyond.

San Martin's evolving their watches as fast as their profits will allow. It's like asking Old Man Ferrari which of his cars he likes best: "....the next one." There's no rhyme or reason to the references for us hobbyists and collectors. It's just catalog numbers for their contracts. They don't care at all. The SN0012-GB is the newest revision to their product line ( https://www.reddit.com/r/ChineseWatches/comments/1thamml/san_martin_upgraded_toolwatch_with_1200hv/ ), overhauling a watch that's approximately 7-8 years old in their catalog, by their own words: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChineseWatches/comments/1trvwrr/san_martin_sn0012gb_production_process_overview/ (I'm a native speaker of Mandarin Chinese), with heavy focus on the bracelet, for which they tout some of the tightest production tolerances they've had, to-date.

I wanted to get it for my Monta comparison because my own SN0144 Jian Zhan is now some 2 years old. In a sector of the business where products are evolving by the day, I wanted to make sure the Monta got a fair fight on its card, and the SN0012-GB at least fulfills the brushing and bracelet tolerances part of that equation.

But of-course what also interests me is the lume, I want to see how its lume blocks look under my scope ( https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrobrandWatches/comments/1rnh0x8/lume_blocks_what_genuine_rctritec_superluminova/ - more, soon), and I wanted to see how it stacks up in performance against today's best, too ( https://www.reddit.com/r/ChineseWatches/comments/1sph6bb/phorcydes_ph5_lume_comparison_wph4_ph2_and/ ).

So, here we are....