Zodiac Talk => General Zodiac Discussion => Topic started by: abushman on July 05, 2010, 07:55:17 PM

Title: LUME colors on Zodiac Super Sea Wolf
Post by: abushman on July 05, 2010, 07:55:17 PM
Does anyone know what the superluminova color was used (if it was used) on the Zodiac Super Sea Wolf 1000M Divers Watch? I saw on a site that it was C3 as light-yellow yet on  another site it said light-green.   I just picked up item 290451023166 on ebay and it looks like it could use some touching up.
Title: Re: LUME colors on Zodiac Super Sea Wolf
Post by: Nalu on July 06, 2010, 07:39:58 PM
The modern SSW is going to be hard to match for a couple of reasons:

1. It was originally lumed with tritium, which is NLA. It will take a lume maestro like Jack or Kent Parks to match the lume on a partial relume and I'd wager they would recommend getting the whole thing re-done if you really want the lume to match.

2. I have two SSWs, both of which seem to have different-colored bezel lume. The earlier one is more yellowish (as the one you bought looks to be)
(https://www.vintagezodiacs.com/zforums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi42.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fe304%2FColMiller%2FZodiac%2FModern%2520SSW%2FsEarlySSW1.jpg&hash=43de204bd8b42320a8dc545aab481af4c45eef8e)

whilst the later one seems to be more greenish:
(https://www.vintagezodiacs.com/zforums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi42.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fe304%2FColMiller%2FZodiac%2FModern%2520SSW%2Fs100ATMSSWinWater3.jpg&hash=5f10937699cd4e44a8af4fef36e16fa047cf3b4b)

As you can see, my bezel also needs touching up but I've left it for now for the above reasons.

Title: Re: LUME colors on Zodiac Super Sea Wolf
Post by: abushman on July 07, 2010, 07:45:52 AM
Thanks for the info!  By the way those are the most awesome incredible pictures I've ever seen of watches.  From the copyrights I assume you shot those. 
Beautiful!!!