Blows away Tritium! Worldwide Premier of Marathon Navigator with Maraglo
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- Wrapping up this crazy week with a real winner! Marathon has released a new version of the popular Navigator watch, this time with their amazing Maraglo technology. This passive illumination tech absorbs the ambient light and then slowly releases it through the entire night, making sure the watch stays legible.
It's your rugged daily companion, whether you are battling crime, fires or the morning commute.
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Constructive feedback - It would've been useful to see a timelapse to see how the lume fades over time compared to the Seiko, and to see how long it takes until the lume matches the brightness of tritium
100% agree and will get to one eventually.
Less than an hour until my H3 Navigator is brighter than my Seiko SPB.
Ive done it, it takes 30mins and fresh tritium tubes will be brighter than Seiko’s lumibrite on divers, and c3 superL.
I still much prefer tritium. It glows 24 7 for 15 to 25 years. I drive a truck at night and there is absolutely no lume that will stay bright from sun down to sun up. I wear my Ball watch almost exclusively because of that. Ball is my favorite company, but the tritium is the reason I wear it so often. When using tritium you must look at what tritium is being used. T100 tritium tubes are the brightest. T25s unfortunately are what many brands use because it's half the cost. Please, please, please put tritium in your Islanders! I know I've been asking for a few years now, but I love the Calabro GMT and the Brookville. I own them and wear them, but the tritium would keep them on my wrist all night! Anyway, thanks again Mark.
God bless
I have a Marathon tsar and in the middle of the night it is the brightest thing in my watch box. I owned a ball with t100 and it was actually too bright I thought.
The T100 tritium stays at like 40-50% of the full brightness of my seiko watches 24 7. So in my opinion, tritium is the best if you need lume to last more than a couple hours. I don't use tritium in only watches either though. I have tritium on my truck key, handgun sights ect. I use a lot of tritium because it works and it works great. But unfortunately not all watch companies, like I said, have figured out that they need to use T100 tubes. Even Marathon, which is a great brand, uses T25s. My Ball has T100s. I only know that because I have a good number of tritium tubes all over from T25s to T100s to compare with.
Noted, thank you!
@@islandwatch No thank you. I wear my Islanders during the day. I love my Islanders. The tritium is the only thing I could think to upgrade them with. Or maybe a timascus/zircuti/mokuti dial. Those 3 are damascus made of titanium, zirconium and something else. That'd be killer. The Brookville with a timascus or zircuti dials and tritium! What a kick butt idea! Remember where you heard that... Me!! High end knife collectors tend to be into watches. Those are high end materials we live on our knives and make them beautiful. At least check it out. Thanks for the great watches and content though!
God bless
Not giving up my tritium for anything with passive luminescence. I've had both, and tritium is better for my purposes (lots of nighttime ops).
I have several Deep Blues with T100 tritium and I have to keep them covered when not on wrist or they light up the room at night. Granted, there are 4 of them, but they are all legible throughout the night, even in Alaska. Whatever Steeldive uses is incredibly good as well, just received one and was impressed.
As others stated, you really needed a shot of the watches after they'd all been in the dark for 8 hours.
As someone who works at night, Tritium is great in practical use during the night.
Again, as a few others have said, I'm also waiting for an Islander with trit tubes, preferably blue (BGW9 is such a pleasant lume color that you also don't use enough of in your normally lumed pieces) or orange.
Several of your designs lend themselves to it, with wide markers and hands that could fit the brighter T100 tubes. That said, even T25 is perfectly visible at night, when your eyes are already adjusted to the dark.
Absolutely 100% agree that there needs to be a longer time lapse.
@@islandwatch - Marc, reading further through the comments after your reply, I hope you're noticing how many of us like tritium tubes, have watches with tritium, and either want or already have an Islander.
If this Green Southold had blue trit tubes on the markers and green on the hands, it would be perfect.
(Well, except that the hand wind portion of the movement must've slipped or broke off after a week of wear, on the 2nd time I tried to hand wind it. Not your fault they put in a bad movement, but still annoying to have to rely on the "Islander shuffle" for winding). I might see about warranty service if I get in the mood to wear my G Shock for however long that would be, since I'd paired down my watches and was hoping yours would hold up better.)
I fully agree. I've been asking him for tritium for a couple years lol. It's expensive though and I'm not sure how many of us would actually want tritium. You and I would bc of night work. But I don't think a lot of people see the need. So the cost of materials, production and design is probably a gamble. It could go either way. But I'd love to get a few of the Islanders with tritium.
God bless
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@@Texas240 It's not as easy as just slapping some tritium tubes on a watch. The tritium hands are thicker, so the stack of hands needs more room between the dial and crystal. The bits of the spindle that holds the hands has to handle that as well.
Nice tactical watch. Love that black vs white contrast.
Seems to be a “peace-of-mind” type of watch i.e. put it and forget it, regardless of the activity you do in one day.
AND, me being from Canada, I feel proud that they are built here in my neck of the woods.
Thanks for sharing Marc.
If I put my Seiko with my GSAR next to my bed, and wake up at 4:00 am and look at them, the tritium tubes are brighter, I’d love to do that test with Mariglo
I will need to indeed.
I can't see paying over $400 for a watch that the lume degrates over time. That's why I went with the adnac gpd. You don't have to wait for your eyes to adjust lol. You push a button it's on!!
I initial glow of the Maraglo blows the Tritium away but in the middle of the night the Tritium blows the Maraglo away. Given the choice between the two I would go Tritium every time. 😊
Love me a battery hatch - the Swatches I owned in the 80's and 90's had them and it meant I could easily change my own batteries by just unscrewing the hatch with a 2p coin (which fit perfectly!) - no need for any special tools or a trip to the jewellers to get the back off (and many a good watch was cosmetically ruined by jewellers being too clumsy with the tools). If the Tissot PRX quartz used these I'd have probably bought one - but sadly it has one of those awful snap on case backs that are almost impossible to remove without marking them.
Snap on casebacks are the quickest way to scratch a case or shatter a crystal.
Swatch Group is about the worst thing to happen to the Swiss industry and the watch industry in general. Swatch Group is a bunch of bankers, not watchmakers. Look into their history to see how evil, greedy, and anti-watch industry Swatch Group is.
Rant aside, my point is, you're better off for not buying anything under the Swatch Umbrella.
Marathon watches are nice but you can get a Deep Blue with NH35 movement, similar case, 200m wr, Tritium T-100, sapphire crystal with AR coating, nylon strap for $179. Just sayin 🤷🏻♂️
Thanks for sharing them Marc. Have a great day.
No worries, thanks for checking it out.
I'm skeptical this new maraglo is going to beat tritium tubes after several hours. Once you go with tritium it's hard to opt for anything else.
Ya, there's no way. Tritium is it. There is no better. That's why I prefer Ball watches...
I do agree with you, but for Marathon it is a bit of a departure.
Way more interested in that GMT teaser you snuck in there! Looking forward to those!!
LOL, thanks.
I guess if you're were a desk-benched military enthusiast, the Maraglo would be good for you. However, if you're in the military, Marathon purposely used H3 and not H10 tritium so that the soldier can see the time in the dark, but give away his or her position under combat!
T25 requires your eyes to adjust to the dark, but T100 is pretty visible. It's too bad Marathon's tritium offerings don't use that.
Exactly. That's pretty much what I said.
Maybe in the future.
It could be down to the tactical purposes. As 100 would be too bright for night operations etc .
@@TheZanshen Nah, they aren't that bright. They're about 60% brighter than 25s
@@jimfiore4671 Yes I have had them ,but for tactics it’s too bright. That’s why the Elliot Brown Holton watch ,which is an official Uk military watch and has NATO stock number is issued to the SBS don’t use tritium only super luminova. But marathon are US government issue so different policy.
Love the lume comparison, helps me understand what I'm looking at.
If they release a GSAR w maraglo It will be a blockbuster
I'm just here to say again that a Island watch line of aftermarket Marathon bracelets for the GSAR/TSAR would be amazing.
Just bought the SSDNAV and love it ! Traded my JSAR for it. Couldn’t be happier. It’s gained half a second in almost 2 months.
awesome, thank you!
Looks like the same nylon strap and tunnel keeper as on my cheap Bertucci. Super comfy. No giant rings to bite into my wrist.
Not sure I understand: Is "Maraglo" actually chemically different, or is it the same substance as other Swiss / Japanese lumes and they're just using the term to brand / market their "better" application of it?
Port Jeff true traveler GMT is what ive been waiting to hear
great
Thanks 4 update on new Maraglo
It’s cool, but still way overpriced for what it is. If it had a high grade titanium case I could understand the high price. Fibershell can’t be THAT expensive to produce.
Agreed. I remember being very interested back when they were $200-250 all day long.
Only 60 meters water resistance? 😮👎🏻
@@plotin2009 I guess it’s a pilot watch so if it’s in the water you’ve done something wrong. 😀
Thanks for checking it out anyways!
It's at 10% off price right now, you get an additional 10% if it's your first purchase on their site at the moment. So it can be a more interesting buy at 20% off.
When you said you were releasing a 9075 gmt soon I was hoping and hoping it would be the port jeff but redone. I never thought you would actually do it. Buying that immediately!
Both my tritium tubed watches are super bright
battery life? question is it possible to find different types of options for battery e.g.(5-10yr not just 2-3yr)
Bummed to see the tritium gone, i love mine.
not gone. This is just a new version.
@@islandwatch You're the best at what you do Marc :D
Fresh tritium tubes are nice. But I have several Marathons with dim or dead tritium tubes after several years. I should send them in for replacement dial+hands. Meanwhile, the Maraglo models are going strong....
Myota gmt, you tease. I cant wait Mark. ❤
Ball has amazing tritium tubes, but since the started using in house movements, the price has gone through the roof and out of my range now. Really nice watches IMHO.
I am still on the fence re: Marathon. It is the perfect premier field diver. But then I keep looking at Sinn 857 & cannot decide!
Ooooo, I do love me some Sinn
@@islandwatch I may compromise with a Damasko :-)
@@bignz721I owned a Damasko DA45 and a Sinn 857 UTC. Gotta say that while the Sinn is well made, the Damasko is next level. Wouldn’t be a compromise at all IMO.
Excited about the port Jeff GMT
Did you say you had the tritium one covered or did it just not glow at all?
It looks pretty nice, except for that tiny (unreadable for me) date. If there were a no-date version, or one with a larger date, I would certainly be interested.
How is that mil. Spec. With a push/pull crown? Maybe in 1986 but that is just wrong.
These aren't really for me, BUT I am very interested about the Port Jefferson coming back as a Miyota 9075 based GMT. I expect that it will have a 24 hour bezel. Will the colourways be the same or will you me reworking those?
I like the idea of an affordable trevellers GMT. There are a few around with the 9075 movement...
Tritium glows with the same brightness for 15 years or more. Comparing Tritium to light activated luminous paint is a completely spurious exercise since no light activated luminous substance can compete with Tritium tubes after a couple of hours of darkness. That is just basic physics and the chemistry of how luminous substances work.
I accidentally dropped my navigator on the floor once. Back popped off, movement popped out, hands popped off. Not really mil spec
It would've been a good opportunity to make the body thinner. Now that there are not tritium pips, it would've been nice to see a 11mm thick body like on the steel version. 😢
This video is fairly inaccurate. Yes, initially, painted lume like C3 or Seiko’s Lumi Bright is much brighter than tritium tubes, but it rarely lasts all night, and fades extremely quickly, needing to be charged again. I have the SSNAV from Marathon, and I can see the tritium extremely well in a dark room at night as soon as the lights are out, and even in a dimly lit hallway it’s visible that the markers are glowing. Your video exposure is adjusted to show the painted lume as “normal” at the outset of its glow phase, which makes the tritium appear as if it’s not glowing at all, but if you were to show it as the naked eye sees it, the tritium would be far more visible than you’re giving it credit for, even alongside these other painted lume surfaces. If you showed the same side-by-side, say, 7 hours later, the tritium would likely be far brighter than either of the painted markers.
Watch reviewers love to shine a light on a watch and go, “OOOH! Look how bright!” But they often fail to mention that it only lasts a minute or two before it drops to a dim glow, and then within a couple of hours is almost unusable. Tritium has a constant glow until its half life kicks in and it dwindles, but that’s over years, not minutes or hours.
For a quartz watch with only 50m wr and a non colour matched date this is too expensive.
No problem, thanks for watching
I dunno about marathon, but my Luminox is bright enough to read by, and it's just a basic 3000 series model. I wouldn't want it to be any brighter, or it would become a nuisance in a dark room.
Awesome stuff Marc! Is the maraglo similar to what Lume-tec uses? My Lume-tec glows as the light dims and lasts all night.
It's a proprietary photoluminescence, so I can't really say. . . but I think Lum-Tec uses Superluminova top grade.
Where was the blow away?
In the opening portion.
Thanks.
yo mark could you please give exact wrist size when you do your demo tks...
My sleeping watch😄😄
I wish Marathon updated their officers field watch to 100m Wr,having a field watch with that price tag and only 50m Wr is an insult.
i really like the white port jeff too bad it's discontinued and adding a gmt on a new would make it pricier 😢.
Has Marathon hinted at replacing the tritium tubes in future GSAR’s or other watches?
If your claim is to say maraglo blows away tritium, why would you cover the tritium? Let the potential buyer decide by showing them side by side.
I think you're just playing with the distortion of the camera, the recording process, and displaying the recording result on computer/phone screens. My eyes (-4.5, wearing glasses) can easily read the Tritium dial at dark night.
so marathon believes ar coating impeding on the visibility of the dial ...?!!
now that's a new one
My GSAR is mostly Tritium lit and only has MaraGlo on the bezel pip and it's as good if not better than Seiko LumiBrite.
thanks much!
Sticking with my Bertucci
Love Bertucci!
try a deep blue with Tritium 100 tubes. the tritum is bright enough to see in the day light
Was that Tritium tube a T25 or a T100? It does matter. Tritium all they way! In person is what matters, not what is perceived through a camera that can't capture what an eye actually sees.
I couldn't even see the tritium on my lappie monitor.
Will you be adding Ball watches to your site?
No, sorry.
Maraglow may last, but the amount used on the hour markers is too little. I thought it was superluminova vs trit in the comparison. It just looked meh.
T100 trit FLAT tubes is the way to go.
60mm of water resistance is more than the average depth that watch lovers expose their watches to.
The bezel on these is terrible. It turns awfully, and within the first week mine chipped. A month after getting it replaced, it popped off. Meanwhile i have a luminox ive kicked the hell out of for 6 years and it’s just missing a little paint.
So are all Marathon watches grossly overpriced or what?
Maybe everything else is underpriced. :)
will they be adding it to all of their pieces/
They use Maraglo on a few items.
it says on specs on your sight they use the Maraglo on the 12 oclock marker doesn't specify all markers.
Tritium has a halflife of 12.3 years. So, you're on the clock with how long it lasts.
That must be old tritium yo.
I have never seen any passive lume watch (including Seikos) that was worth sh#t after a couple of hours. Marathon just figured out a way to make it cheaper.
I will do a time lapse eventually.
Great stuff tritium. Until the half life. This is partly what got me into this stupid hobby in the first place. Tritium's half life on my old Luminox.
Tritium only needs about 45 minutes (at most) and it'll be brighter than any lume watch! The real question is, how will tritium compare to lume 10-15 years down the track?
I love tritium, I just fear that it'll be basically useless long term. I highly doubt that the tubes could be or will be replaced.
There are companies (Ball Watch, for example) who will replace the tritium tubes or the entire dial if needed.
I have an Original Navy Seal Luminox watch that’s 26 years old and the Tritium is barely visible. They do diminish over time.
I agree with all of what you said.
with that background, this is the closest well get to a marc and flossy cross over. white shoes...CALM DOWN.
They removed the tritium and I can no longer coordinate the watch w/ the night sights on my Glocks 😢
LOL, the original navigator is still being made.
@@islandwatchgood news, dodged a bullet so to speak.
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This of course presumes you expose your lumed watch to direct sunlight for an extended period of time. My Marathon MSAR (circa 2010) and my Ball Marvelight are far superior to any lumed watch.
man I agree anything any good not made in chitown is too $$$$.... the chitowners are laughing at us as usual
LOL
I’ve always liked this watch, but it is simply overpriced for a plastic and quartz piece. All the more so with the cheap tritium.
Hmmm…what if Islander did its own take on the Marathon Navigator?
show the gsar for comparison.
The GSAR and Navigator use the same exact tubes.
Has anyone checked prices of Marathon watches. Unrealistic for the average consumer. Keep selling to the ELITISTS
How much for SKX? Just kidding! LOL
ha!
Zeroth
not really
What Maraglow 😅😅 Who do try to kid? Marathon is gone
Mmmm?
mmmmmm
Boring
Does this Mariglow version lose its DOD status? is that why it won’t bear US Govt mark? Thanks Marc
Marathon are one of the best watches out there Mark,I’ve used them for many years and trust them 100% ,good luck Mark the guys who know what they are talking about will snap them up ,thanks.📐👍🏴🛩️