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| Posted: Wed Nov 14th, 2012 03:44 pm |
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carsten stasch ORCA Military Diving Germany 
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buffbaker wrote: Mr. Stasch, Thanks :-) Here is the in depth explanation why we decided against H3 (Tritium used to be our initial choice, I even had a watch designed): - The watch becomes too high, because (seen from the side) you have to stack 4 glastubes on top of each other plus the rest. Adds up to: sapphire second minute hour indices dial clockwork caseback We didn't want to "trick" by having the indices on the outer rim of the dial to save space, because it is not as readable as it is if the minute is above the indices and "meets" them. (I own a "TAWATEC Titan Diver Tactical ICS" myself and it sticks out of my arm way too high in my opinion). - The watch becomes too expensive. The only decent tubes on the market that perform in the long run as promised are from mb-microtec. We wouldnt have gone for cheap imitations. - Tritium is too bright! In our opinion, you turn into the perfect sniper target at night with a wrist illuminated like a christmas tree. - Customs offices around the world make it very complicated to send "radioactive material" back and forth. - European, -especially german- customers are almost scared of anything "radioactive". As ridiculous as it sounds, thats a big obstacle to establish h3-watches in germany. Considering all off the above and working with the latest type of superluminova in thick layers, tritium will not illuminate an ORCA. Regards Carsten
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| Posted: Thu Nov 15th, 2012 01:09 am |
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andrema Professional Watch Critic 
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You are doing things right Carsten! Keep up the great work!
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| Posted: Thu Nov 15th, 2012 03:11 am |
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spanky1 Watch Freek 
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Price for an automatic is much more than a Deep Blue 2824 automatic. What justifies the huge price difference verses a SHOP Deep Blue Price. Last edited on Thu Nov 15th, 2012 03:12 am by spanky1 ____________________ Grand Seiko: The Pursuit of Excellence |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 15th, 2012 03:15 am |
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Tattoo Chef Moderator 
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spanky1 wrote:Price for an automatic is much more than a Deep Blue 2824 automatic. What justifies the huge price difference verses a SHOP Deep Blue Price. Swiss made, titanium, custom designed cases not off the shelf.
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| Posted: Thu Nov 15th, 2012 05:07 am |
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buffbaker Watch Freek
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That quality (which came through even as prototypes) is why I would be willing to pay the difference if the lume was tritium. That said, I teach radiation safety to healthcare providers and I can understand why there might be an associated stigma to tritium, even if the tubes are Swiss made too. As for being a better target wearing a tritium tubed watch, I don't know if it would matter much, a Gen.IV image intensifier scope should make that amoot point.
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| Posted: Fri Nov 16th, 2012 02:26 am |
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carsten stasch ORCA Military Diving Germany
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We are having massive serverproblems with orcatimepieces.com and jackets-to-go.de at the moment. Pages will be up again soon we hope! We will answer all emails after solving our technical problems.
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| Posted: Fri Nov 16th, 2012 04:52 pm |
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soberdave09 Watch Freek 
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very cooooooooooool diver
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| Posted: Sun Nov 18th, 2012 01:09 am |
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andrema Professional Watch Critic
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Yep, I can't wait to see the final product,
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