Gasp. Look what happened to the band on my wife’s Luminox Leatherback Sea Turtle Giant 0323 Dive Watch, which I bought for her as a Christmas present on Nov. 30, 2021; we grabbed the timepiece on a Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale—and what savings, too. The manufacturer currently sells the wristwear for 68 percent more than we paid nearly 17 months ago.
Broken was yesterday, when I captured the Featured Image, incidentally. Today, we have an exact replacement band that I purchased through one of Amazon’s third-party sellers. I couldn’t find the correct Polyurethane strap on the Luminox website. But what we got looks legit and appears to be exactly like the one the watch came with.
Anne’s journey to this watch style started humbler. In film “Those Who Wish Me Dead“, Angelina Jolie’s character wears what I wrongly presumed was a fancy dive watch. Not so. She donned the Casio Men’s MRW200H-2B2V Classic Analog Quartz Black Watch, which we purchased from Amazon for $18.96 on May 21, 2021 as a birthday present. The watch is still a bargain at $22.49, this evening. Annie loved the thing.
But she couldn’t read the time in the dark. Luminox timepieces feature what the company calls a “self-powered illumination system that utilizes tiny micro gas light tubes to create ultimate visibility in complete darkness, under any conditions”. The feature ensures “at-a-glance visibility, meaning the watches provide a constant glow 24/7 for up to 25 years”.
We upgraded to always-on luminescence and better build quality—and that’s no knock on the Casio, which is rugged enough, even if the price was two to three times more.
Let’s talk photo, captured on April 19, 2023 using Leica Q2. Vitals, aperture manually set: f/5.6, ISO 100, 1/500 sec, 28mm; 1:48 p.m. PDT.