Luminox Essential Gear Sea diving watch

Luminox, the US-based watch brand that supplies its timepieces to the U.S. military and law-enforcement agencies, has updated its model range with the new Essential Gear series of watches.

Starting at a ridiculously low price of $295, the Luminox Essential Gear Sea diving watch sports a rugged-looking 44 mm case made of a carbon-based composite material, which is both durable and lightweight.

Its mineral crystal has also undergone some special treatment that made it less prone to scratches and strong enough to withstand water pressure of up to 20 BAR.

Like the rest of Luminox watches, this diver features a set of LLT tritium tubes that provide the instrument with adequate backlighting and are generally good for about 25 years.

To make the watch more readable at night, Luminox has logically differentiated the colors that the LLT tubes glow with in darkness.

The hour hand, as well as the central seconds hand and the main hour marker at 12 hours are green; while the minute hand, the other 11 indices on the minute track and the “00″ mark on the rotating bezel are colored in a shade of violet.

Such color differentiation must be very convenient, when you are under a severe stress from a sudden ambush and reflexively want to check the time.

The watch comes with comfortable-looking the nylon Velcro fast-strap sporting the company’s logo on one side and U.S. Navy SEALs insignia on the other.

The American watchmaker says nothing about the movement that powers the watch, besides that this is some kind of a Swiss quartz, so there is a good chance that the watch will be both very accurate and reliable.

Photos: Luminox

Luminox Essential Gear Sea diving watch specification

Price range: $295
Movement: Swiss quartz
Complications: Date
Power reserve: A couple of years
Case material: Carbon-reinforced polymer
Case shape: Round
Case size: 44.00 mm
Case height: N/A
Dial: Blue
Hands: White
Water resistance: 200 meters
Strap: Black nylon Velcro fast-strap
Crystal: Mineral, scratch-resistant