mb-microtec usa to introduce traser H3 watches

Mb-microtec usa introduced tactical and sports watches with innovative Swiss technology 'Trigalight' at the 17th annual JCK Las Vegas 2008, May 30~June 3rd.

The trigalight(Gaseous Tritium Light Source) is the result of decades of research and development in the field of radio luminescence. Small glass tubes are coated on the inside with a phosphorescent material, then filled with a minute amount of tritium gas and hermetically sealed by a laser. Electrons emitted from the gas excite the material to give off a cold light. Trigalight can be manufactured to give off light in different colors. They are 100 times brighter than anything comparable and have a life span of more than 20 years.

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• traser
• H3
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• JCK
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[bent540]

too bad their watches sucks

[NeoNSPETSNAZ]

@guitartec

I just bought a Luminox 3051 ( also made by mb-microtec) and it has blue tritium vials in it. They should still be making it.

[NeoNSPETSNAZ]

@Roger1379

I think that he means that tritium is used to boost the fusion of the Plutonium and Uranium-238 in hydrogen bombs. I have not even passed the eigth grade and know very much about this stuff!

[Roger1379]

@boxa888 Governments don't usually allow watch manufacturers to distribute uranium 238 and plutonium......This is H3(hydrogen 3) aka tritium, these tiny amounts inside watches only give off beta and alpha radiation, it is harmless as all the radiation is absorbed by the glass vials and mineral crystal.

[donmega4]

great watch, i just wish they made more automatic movements.

[dodgydan]

This guy sounds just like Dr Evil! Looks like him too! "The price of the watch? 1 million Dollars!!!"

[avtomattourbillon]

Yes, but the radioactivity is very, very low

it is just a beta-radioactivity, that means a simple electron coming out of the hydrogenium-

atom. This electron cannot even penetrate acigarette-paper. no electron is going out of the glass-tube. At the watch, there`s no

radioactivity measurable at all. Even if you break the glasstube, the amount of radioactivity is much, much lower than after a flight in a plane. And from Tritium to the

Hydrogenbomb is a long way.

[boxa888]

arnt these things dangerous, its the same material used for nuclear weapons isnt it??

[guitartec]

Thanks for the info. I sure would like to get this watch glowing again. Do you know if they have a US phone number or an email address?

[avtomattourbillon]

Dear guitartec,

Please ask again at microtec from tue to fr

between 9.00 to 17.00.

The Phonenumber is 0041 31 980 20 20 (switzerland).

I have got my blue lights replaced without problems.

I cannot give you a 100% guarantee that it works, but they have a new collection with blue lights.

Good luck!