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Luminox Bear Grylls Series Enhances Eco-Friendliness

Luminox enhances its Bear Grylls Survival Collection’s sustainability quotient in the latest Bear Grylls Survival Rule of 3 watch through the use of new up-cycled plastic Ocean Material for the case, bezel and black strap.

The new Luminox Bear Grylls Survival Rule of 3 Tide watch.

Built in partnership with Swiss-based Tide Ocean SA, the material is as durable and water resistant as Luminox’s own Carbonox, which cases earlier Bear Grylls models.

Luminox is making the new Bear Grylls Survival Rule of 3 Tide watch in two versions: black dial with black up-cycled Ocean Material strap and green Ocean Material bezel or black dial with orange rubber strap and green Ocean Material bezel.

As a company, Luminox has greatly enhanced its watch manufacturing process using recycled and up-cycled materials and has developed company wide CO2 neutral status since 2020.

For the uninitiated, the Rule of 3 states that an adventurer can not survive without air for 3 minutes, shelter for 3 hours, water for 3 days and food for 3 weeks. This accounts for the extra-large numeral 3 on the dial in its appropriate position on all watches in the collection.

Just across the dial, the Bear Grylls Never Give Up logo balances the large 3. You’ll also find the Rule of 3 also spelled out on a removable sliding tab on the watchstrap.

Luminox is well known for placing self-illuminated hands and bezel markers on its watches. The illumination, which emanates from micro gas tubes, remains bright for up to twenty-five years. Here, the primary hour markers, hands, and 3 are illuminated.

The 42mm Luminox Bear Grylls Survival Rule of 3 Tide watch, powered with a Ronda quartz movement, is water resistant to 200 meters. Price: $495.

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Luminox Expands Bear Grylls Collection

To emphasize its broad collection of adventure watches, Luminox launches the Bear Grylls Limited Edition Rule of 3 Sea Series watch (333 pieces for the world) that includes a special removable sleeve on the strap with the ‘Rule of 3’ emblazoned on it.

The new Luminox Bear Grylls Limited Edition Rule of 3 Sea.

For the uninitiated, the Rule of 3 states that an adventurer can not survive without air for 3 minutes, shelter for 3 hours, water for 3 days and food for 3 weeks. This accounts for the extra-large numeral 3 on the dial in its appropriate position.  

The new watch joins others in the Luminox Bear Grylls collection. However, unlike the existing models in this collection designed for the Luminox Land and Air series, this new model is the first in the collection designed with nautical (Sea) wear in mind.

Luminox cases the watch in a carbon composite called Carbonox and features a uni-directional bezel set with a blue, orange and white dive-timing sector. The watch is water resistant to 200 meters.

Of course, the watch is also set with luminous materials called Luminox Light Technology designed to be visible in low or no light conditions. Each timepiece is individually numbered, and a special certificate comes with each watch. Price: $545.

 

Specifications: Luminox Bear Grylls Limited Edition Rule of 3 Sea Series 

Case: 42mm by 14mm Carbonox with crown protection, uni-directional turning bezel, steel screw-in caseback, hardened mineral crystal. Weight: 76 grams. Water resistant to 200 meters.

Dial: Black with orange and white hands and luminous material; date.

Movement: Ronda quartz 515 HF 6 with 50-month battery life.

Strap: Black genuine rubber w/ stainless steel buckle.

Price: $545.

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Luminox Expands Bear Grylls Collection

The new Luminox Bear Grylls Air watch, reviewed and approved by its adventurous namesake, is a tough 45mm steel aviation-style model with quartz-powered world time indications. And like Grylls, the watch is built to travel anywhere, through all extreme conditions, and remain highly reliable, precise and legible.

The new Luminox Bear Grylls Air watch.

Luminox is well known for placing self-illuminated hands and bezel markers on its watches. The illumination, which emanates from micro gas tubes, remains bright for up to twenty-five years. Here, the primary hour markers, hands, and 12, 3, 6 and 9 numerals are illuminated.

Luminox’s Light Technology works in low-light or darkness.

As a world timer, the new watch displays twenty-four time zones, all indicated by cities named around the dial. Luminox tips the GMT hand with orange to more easily indicate a second time zone in any one of those cities. The 24-hour inner GMT ring is particularly tough, comprised of a hard carbon material (Carbonex) with an aluminum ring inlay.

And finally, Luminox equips the watch’s screw-down crown with an orange rubber ring for easier gripping. The same orange tone is evident all over the watch, notably on the dial logos, the GMT hand and even on the back of the watch. Water-resistance is suitably strong, rated to 200 meters.

The watch’s two-tone caseback bears Grylls’s name and his motto, “Never give up.”

The Luminox Bear Grylls Air joins the expanding Bear Grylls Survival collection, already feauring models within ‘sea,’ ‘land’ and ‘master’ categories. The newest offering can be purchased on either a Cordura strap or a Milanese mesh bracelet.

Prices: $695 (fabric strap) and $795 (steel mesh bracelet).

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Luminox Dives into Pacific

Luminox underscores its direct links with the Pacific Ocean with the Pacific Diver 3120 Series, a new dive watch collection named for the body of water central to the Luminox story.

The watch brand, founded in California in 1989, initially designed its watches to align with requirements of the Navy SEALS, whose members train in the Pacific Ocean near San Diego. 

This new Pacific Diver 3120 Series of four 44mm by 12mm quartz-powered steel diver watches all boast a carbon uni-directional bezel and a healthy water resistance rating to 200 meters.

Luminox also ensures that each watch features a screw-in crown and caseback, sapphire crystal and Luminox’s own tritium-gas-based Always Visible dial illumination, which Luminox says will keep the dial readable in the dark for up to twenty-five years.

Luminox engraves its motto, “Every Second Counts,” on the stainless-steel caseback, which protects a Ronda 515 quartz movement.

The four versions of the Pacific Diver 3120 Series include: An all-black model with dark dial, black bezel and black DLC case ($595) sold on a rubber strap, a black dial and black bezel model sold on a steel bracelet ($640), a model with blue dial and a black bezel sold on a steel bracelet ($640), and a black dial and black bezel model on rubber ($545).

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