From the founder of Luminox, check out Protek Watches

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Жыл бұрын

From the founder of Luminox watches comes a new Tritium watch brand, Protek. Tritium is a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, and means you will be able to easily read the time all night long, without the need to ever "recharge" the lume.
Among the lineup, you will find carbon composite cases, titanium cases and sapphire crystals. Being true tactical watches, they have water resistance of up to 300 meters, and of course feature sapphire crystals.
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@guyfisher2050 Жыл бұрын

Waiting for Islander watches with T-100 tritium

@RockHudrock Жыл бұрын

Luminox are my favorite watch. My brother was an F-117 pilot and Barry Cohen made custom watches for my brother and all the Bandits.

@greamespens1460 Жыл бұрын

If Batman had a plane it would be a F117A.

@islandwatch Жыл бұрын

That's super cool.

@barrycohen3733 Жыл бұрын

We'd like to make ProTek watches for your brother and his group. Pls tell him this.

@jwags24 Жыл бұрын

The field watch is awesome. It's crazy how it's so thin even with the large tubes.

@islandwatch Жыл бұрын

Yup, super cool.

@barrycohen3733 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Jared. With its light weight, I now find I wear this series alm ost every day. I love how you dont even realize it is on your wrist.

@robbabcock_ Жыл бұрын

Looking good! I'll never be without a tritium watch.

@barrycohen3733 Жыл бұрын

Indeed. If given the choice why not have superior self-powered night lume.

@9tophat Жыл бұрын

Another excellent video Marc! Thank you very much for carrying more tritium offerings. I love my Marathons and Trasers very much. Protec watches are excellent also. Also, the T100 trit tubes are WAY brighter and has a longer lifespan then the T25 trit tubes used in most other tritium watches. Especially those "brick" style trits used in the Protec field watch. CRAZY bright for sure. I'm so thankful you're bringing more tritium watches onboard. Cheers!🙂👍

@emptyMan0 Жыл бұрын

The last one is a thing of beauty. I wouldn't have expected that from a tactical watch brand. Make it solar or automatic on a bracelet and I would be very interested. And to address the wrist check, wearing two unobtainium watches at the same time, good for you Marc 🙂

@barrycohen3733 Жыл бұрын

Bracelets and automatics are all in the overall game plan .... eventually.

@LS1007 Жыл бұрын

I have seven Luminox watches starting with the original Navy Seal yellow purchased in 1997. The Tritium is barely visible but the watch still runs perfectly. Thanks for sharing these Marc. Have a great day! 👍🏻👍🏻🇺🇸

@islandwatch Жыл бұрын

Awesome, thanks for sharing.

@barrycohen3733 Жыл бұрын

Sounds like you had some of our older models that I think we made to a higher standard. Time to try a ProTek now and fall in love all over again.

@LS1007 Жыл бұрын

@@barrycohen3733 They are great looking. I may have to find a spot for one. Thank you sir!

@barrycohen3733 Жыл бұрын

@@LS1007 Very kind. It's me that has to thank you. I hope you do find a spot for one --- on your wrist.

@max420thc Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video, I was just looking at some cool Aragon watches that have the T100 tubes. Super cool for sure.

@davidlloydjones752 Жыл бұрын

Protek ... Protreck?. Casio will be happy!🤔

@islandwatch Жыл бұрын

yup

@87engr Жыл бұрын

Now I feel like an idiot for wondering why Marc said that there's no "R" in Protek.

@barrycohen3733 Жыл бұрын

see prior comment.

@jpgr8937 Жыл бұрын

My very first thought. 😂

@kyledriscollmusic Жыл бұрын

Marc when you gonna hop in the tritium game?

@alvinmick218 Жыл бұрын

Another excellent video Mark! I have always been partial to tritium lume for my watches.

@johnsrabe Жыл бұрын

The field version is very handsome and so different from the rest. A winner. We had roller buckles on our belts in the 1970s.

@barrycohen3733 Жыл бұрын

Those blue jean belt buckles were my inspriation.

@Trapvision3D Жыл бұрын

Quite the informative video. You do an amazing job of breaking it down during the showcase.

@islandwatch Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@barrycohen3733 Жыл бұрын

@@islandwatch I agree. You did do a great job on that video Marc! Thank you

@zman8340 Жыл бұрын

Thanks Marc. That’s date just just is perfect . Looks killer on you.

@islandwatch Жыл бұрын

Yeah, fits like a dream.

@Rch_P Жыл бұрын

Just saw these on your site, Marc! Was looking forward to a video

@CptSlow89 Жыл бұрын

Same size like my Timex Expedition which is max for my wrist. Wish it is a bit smaller like 45-46mm lug to lug.

@CDOES Жыл бұрын

Gosh these are all so cool! I'd love a 40mm case with a bezel and that t100 tube set

@barrycohen3733 Жыл бұрын

Food for thought. Thank you.

@johnsrabe Жыл бұрын

Did you have your the DadJust cleaned? It looks a little spiffier than usual. It is an awesome watch.

@jefferyneu3915 Жыл бұрын

Are they making any T-100 watches? That would make me want one of these! Sorry Marc… I just found the T-100 Protec watches on your website!👍

@glensilva2378 Жыл бұрын

Marc any chance we see a T-100 Islander in the near future?

@Texas240 Жыл бұрын

Marc. Those blue markers on indices and amber on the hands would be perfect on your skin diver design.

@MacoyMoon40 Жыл бұрын

Marc Whats the difference of isl 01 and isl 02?

@davegreeley 9 ай бұрын

The black one looks tactically nice.

@SlapShotRegatta22 Жыл бұрын

Love the field watch range. Only wish they were 36/38mm...

@jpgr8937 Жыл бұрын

Wow these are awesoms!

@megasoid Жыл бұрын

Excellent....you can't have too many tritium watches out there. Wish more brands used this.

@islandwatch Жыл бұрын

Agreed!

@87engr Жыл бұрын

Dealing with all the NRC (or equivalent) regulations would probably be a giant pain for the manufacturer. But yes, it would be nice to have more tritium watches.

@barrycohen3733 Жыл бұрын

Amen

@megasoid Жыл бұрын

@@islandwatch My watch arrived this afternoon and what a beauty the blue dial #PT3003 reference is. Thanks Marc and the rest of your staff for making me happy with my third purchase from your company. Looks like this one is sold out by the way!

@takethecurseOFFwashingmachine Жыл бұрын

Sick wrist watch check!!!!!

@islandwatch Жыл бұрын

thank you.

@kanialakim4985 9 ай бұрын

Aloha! What is the name of the watch that was super bright (monster???)? That one looks amazing! Mahalo!

@simonwright6882 Жыл бұрын

Is the long battery life due to a long life battery or low power consumption of the movement? I wonder the same with some casio models.

@barrycohen3733 Жыл бұрын

Miyota makes this movement with a 10-year battery and we chose this so the case need not be opened for battery changes for a long, long time. The less one has to open the case the better and especially for a dive type watch. Other movment makers also make 10-year battery movements. They make very good sense for a quartz dive watch.

@ZekeWeeks Жыл бұрын

The other dial colors on the field watch are stunning! Don’t see enough tritium watches in the “classy 3-hand everyday metal watch” format.

@barrycohen3733 Жыл бұрын

Love seeing the "stunning" word. Makes all the work worthwhile.

@azdbuk Жыл бұрын

Field is sharp. That is my pick. Even before the colored tritium. I do agree though with other post, when I see "Protek" I see "Protrek". He could have consulted with me, I would have invented a more distinct name, for the price of a watch though! 😆 He could have just switched, "Tek-Pro"

@islandwatch Жыл бұрын

LOL. It's what I thought of too.

@barrycohen3733 Жыл бұрын

Let's look at the meaning of the words Trek and Tek. Trek is a journey and Tek is a technology, two very differnt things.

@danielterrebonne4080 Жыл бұрын

Please bring out a silver dial Brookville! I will buy it day one!

@ollianddelphine Жыл бұрын

Ooh the blue one is nice.

@islandwatch Жыл бұрын

Yeah it sure is.

@87engr Жыл бұрын

Yep, it's pretty rare to see a tritium watch that's not uber-"tactical". Other than Ball watches, I suppose.

@barrycohen3733 Жыл бұрын

If you like blue, check out the steel dive series with the bright blue dial! Model 2003. Wow!

@refugiosilva6060 Жыл бұрын

To show off the tritium while using studio lights, you can shine a black light flash light (or other source) onto the watch and it'll highlight the tritium tubes!

@barrycohen3733 Жыл бұрын

Correct. But I've noticed this works far better on some lume colors than others. For example green will show up best and some tend to "hide" a bit with the UV lights or black lights, but in darkness then they really shine .... if you will pardon the pun.

@biffjoesen2529 Жыл бұрын

Gotta admit, citing the radioactivity of a banana was pretty sly, great comparison.

@barrycohen3733 Жыл бұрын

Add this one too - fly across the country at 35,000 feet and you took more radiation into your body than if you ate the whole watch.

@23727bgk Жыл бұрын

They all need the strap keeper from the silicone Barton straps. Easy swap.

@cclee5026 2 ай бұрын

My friend bought the 3003 with brown strap. However it has NO ROLLER on the clasp. It LOOKS like a roller but in reality it’s just solid titanium. Did Barry downgrade the production, or is Mark thinking wishfully ?!? Rollers are great but rare.

@mountainhobo Жыл бұрын

Which one had the red 12 o'clock registration?

@barrycohen3733 Жыл бұрын

None have red at 12 hours. Series 1000 and 2000 have green at 12h, and series 3000 and USMC have orange at 12h.

@fuzzymansam 10 ай бұрын

Khs a German brand have a red option

@rw2266 Жыл бұрын

I see what they did there, protek pro trek protect. Amazing

@barrycohen3733 Жыл бұрын

Yes, the brand name has meaning. Pro stands for the first responders that are the bullseye for our target market consumers, Tek signifies the lume technology, and in a bit of a pun, they are created for those that ProTek(t) us.

@rw2266 Жыл бұрын

@@barrycohen3733 sarcasm hasn't reached your shores then

@barrycohen3733 Жыл бұрын

@@rw2266 Yes, duly noted and even amusing. I never mind fun being poked at me.

@jjjfffppp Жыл бұрын

Man these are cool as heck. Like Ball but affordable

@islandwatch Жыл бұрын

thank you!

@barrycohen3733 Жыл бұрын

Sincere thanks.

@billj5645 2 ай бұрын

I like watches with Tritium tubes for their functionality, 5 of the 13 watches that I regularly wear have Tritium (3 are old Luminox). People talk about the half life and after 10 years they will be 1/2 as bright. That can be misleading because our eyes don't see light like that- something that is exactly 1/2 as bright, if you don't have an immediate frame of reference, will look almost as bright as the original. It will not look half as bright to your eyes.

@johnsmagnet Жыл бұрын

When I was shopping for a tritium watch, Luminox was an obvious budget choice (a Ball Engineer or a GSAR being a bit much for a bed-watch). I was ultimately dissuaded by how many upset posts & reviews I was seeing from former Luminox enthusiasts - the very common theme being that the quality control had declined precipitously. Now I'm wondering if this turn had anything to do with B.C. moving on from the company. My understanding is that all the h3 tubes you'll find in watches are from mb-microtech. Does anyone know if the t-25 vs t-100 distinction is just down to the size of the tube, or if they actually put a higher concentration of tritium in the tube? I haven't been able to chase this detail down yet. Thanks. Oh yeah - that field watch is some sweet watch. With the lighting, the titanium first looked like bronze on my screen.

@islandwatch Жыл бұрын

There's more tritium in the tube, thus the tube is larger.

@87engr Жыл бұрын

I think the numbers (T-25, T-100, etc.) refer to the total amount of radioactivity in the watch in milliCuries. So it could be larger tubes, or more tubes, or I suppose higher concentration per tube - at least in theory.

@87engr Жыл бұрын

Deep Blue has some very affordable divers with tritium tubes, but I don't have any experience with them personally.

@barrycohen3733 Жыл бұрын

Funny you mention this. Indeed it had something to do wth why I'm no longer at my old brand. For us quality is Job 1, and if we cant get the quality we seek, we wont bother making the watch. The ProTek brand is all aobut quality.

@meskes4059 Жыл бұрын

Oh look, it’s Barry Cohen: The Man, The Myth, The Legend.

@glennpowell3444 Жыл бұрын

Wow.That second one looks like a casio mrw200 but without the day window .Mind you the casio has zero luminescence to be fair.Happy to see they are quartz.

@islandwatch Жыл бұрын

Thanks Glenn.

@barrycohen3733 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Glenn.

@jayeyesacks1604 Жыл бұрын

Misprint on the website re crown action for the field watch: "The scratch-resistant sapphire crystal dial ensures clear visibility of the time and other features, while the screwdown crown and water-resistant leather strap make this watch water-resistant up to 100 meters."

@barrycohen3733 Жыл бұрын

The ProTek site has it listed correctly witha push crown.

@jayeyesacks1604 Жыл бұрын

@@barrycohen3733 Just wanted to point out the discrepancy. There should be parity of product information on both sites

@barrycohen3733 Жыл бұрын

@@jayeyesacks1604 Absolutely agree. Assume you caught this, Marc?

@bani_niba Жыл бұрын

I'm not a diver, so just an amateur's conjecture: But I have always thought that any watch that would actually be used for diving ought to be using tritium tubes, not luminous paint. Don't have to depend on sunlight and the lumination is constant.

@islandwatch Жыл бұрын

thanks for the insight.

@barrycohen3733 Жыл бұрын

You need not be a diver to appreciate and enjoy the inherent benefit of seeing time-at-a-glance at any time of day, or NIGHT.

@SpaceG95 Жыл бұрын

A Ball on a budget! 👍🏾😁🤣

@islandwatch Жыл бұрын

true!

@kevinh5349 Жыл бұрын

I like my Ball Engineer II Marvelight. Features for the price can't beat.

@christianc2767 Жыл бұрын

Nice watch

@islandwatch Жыл бұрын

thank you.

@barrycohen3733 Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@RyanBofMKE Жыл бұрын

Wasn't Luminox a Mondaine brand?

@barrycohen3733 Жыл бұрын

Not initially. It was mine and my partner's brand. My partner wanted to exit the biz so I recruited those folks to by him out. IN retrospect, I wish I had bought out my parnter myself.

@DavidBrown-in8hi 4 ай бұрын

Armourlite watches is also a good buy, better maybe .

@WatchAddictionReviews Жыл бұрын

good ole barry

@barrycohen3733 Жыл бұрын

Hey there Erik. Hope you're doing great.

@jackmcclary2136 Жыл бұрын

Lume at 12:08

@dexteryarza3448 5 ай бұрын

Where are the Protek's made?

@dexteryarza3448 4 ай бұрын

I'll answer my own question. They are made in Hong Kong.

@barrycohen3733 4 ай бұрын

@@dexteryarza3448 Sorry to be late in responding. ProTek is an amalgam of 5 nations. First and foremost, it is an American brand. Swiss design, Swiss illuminaiton. Dependable Japanese movements and assumbled in a clean room facility in Hong Kong .

@LaurentiusTriarius Жыл бұрын

To me Luminox are like if a G-Shock mated with a Swatch and had some sort of weird cursed baby but I'm often still living in the 1990's. Nowadays they look decent. From this one I get Citizen had an affair with Ball.

@islandwatch Жыл бұрын

LOL

@hugejohnson5011 Жыл бұрын

First thing I thought of when Marc said "multi-colored" was "Ball".

@defeodome2 Жыл бұрын

Glad to see the use of T100 which Luminox has shied away from.

@barrycohen3733 Жыл бұрын

Luminox never made T100. It becomes cumbersome because two sets of inventory are needed since any countries do not allow more than 25 millicurie and since LX was being sold around the world we had to simplify things. But ProTek is for America, at least at first so it's fine to use T100 here.

@defeodome2 Жыл бұрын

@@barrycohen3733 They sure did make a T100 I still own the 3400 series Nitehawk from 20yrs ago.

@barrycohen3733 4 ай бұрын

@@defeodome2 Sorry, I just see this now. I hate to coreect you but we never made a T100 lume watch at Luminox. We did make 25 mCi ( millicurie) and also 41mCi back then but today all LX is 25 mCi. Protwek has 25 mCi and 100 mCi.

@Stanjara Жыл бұрын

Plastic watch with a quartz Ronda for $400? Buy a G5600 and an automatic Islander instead. Great video Mark!

@kevinh5349 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I'm not impressed. Ever hear of a G-Shock?

@barrycohen3733 Жыл бұрын

@@kevinh5349 Sure. Phenomenal products but even more impressive is their stamina, being hot for the last 40 years! Really quite remarkable.

@barrycohen3733 Жыл бұрын

It's not Ronda but instead Citizen's Miyota. This might turn you off more? But a heck of a lot goes into these that you do not see. The trititum alone installed in a watch at standard watch margins woudl be about $150 (or more) of the retail figure. And of course there is the rest of the watch with its upgraded components and testing procedures that you aren't aware of. Believe it or not, we are running ths brand well below standard watch margins just to be accessible to a wider audience, including YOU.

@x2mars 11 ай бұрын

Don’t you sell bertucci tritium?

@gi4u.s.697 Жыл бұрын

I own one of these, series 1000 USMC and I can tell you that the date window is useless, almost impossible to see even under direct light and even if you have perfect vision. Otherwise the watch is Great!

@barrycohen3733 Жыл бұрын

We will work on the date visibility.

@barrycohen3733 Жыл бұрын

We are at work on this for the next reorder.

@davidlloydjones752 Жыл бұрын

Ahh, you mentioned that...🤭

@islandwatch Жыл бұрын

sure did

@MegaBlackley Жыл бұрын

It literally looks like a rebranded Luminox. I say that not as a bad thing; I like Luminox watches, but the question it begs is: why buy this when I can just buy a Luminox for around the same money? That said, I really like the white dial. If I was going to buy one, that would be the one I went with.

@barrycohen3733 Жыл бұрын

First of all, all Luminox designs up till 2017 when I left came from me so this was my design style, and I see no reason to not sustain the type of designs I've done for a long time in this new band. BUT, I would point out that Luminox was not even in our thoughts as an inspiration for any of the ProTek designs. In fact, our influences came from TAG Heuer's old 2000 series, Omega, one Hublot model, and Hamilton and Longines for field designs. If you look closely at our Carbon diver (and it is hard to see this in the black case) you will see many cuts and angles in the design that is very differnt and unique for a tactical style watch. We call this desing language "facets" because it is reminiscent of how a gemstone has many cuts too.

@henryperez606 Жыл бұрын

Well, you made some nice watches. I will be adding at least one maybe two of them to my watch box. Thank you.

@barrycohen3733 Жыл бұрын

@@henryperez606 This would be really great and we thank you in advance.

@alliejr Жыл бұрын

I can’t believe Casio will let this stand without a fight. Even the font reads the same 🤔🙄

@islandwatch Жыл бұрын

Noted!

@barrycohen3733 Жыл бұрын

Trek is a journey, Tek is a technology .... and we did not use the same font.

@timetowatch_francois Жыл бұрын

Ahhhh shucks!! I didn’t win a prise?!? 😢 Thanks for sharing your passion! That orange “Monster” looks fantastic! Ok, the Protek watches as well 😉

@islandwatch Жыл бұрын

thanks!

@bartfloyd4538 Жыл бұрын

I bought 4. separate Luminox watches first one great, last 3 Junk!

@barrycohen3733 Жыл бұрын

This type of comment is one reaosn I am not there anymore. It's a very long story. Try a ProTek. I think you will be very pleased.

@bartfloyd4538 Жыл бұрын

@@barrycohen3733 Thank you Barry!

@barrycohen3733 Жыл бұрын

@@bartfloyd4538 My pleasure Bart. We want you to join us wiht this brand. My heart and soul are in it, along with many, many hundreds of hours of work.

@bartfloyd4538 Жыл бұрын

@@barrycohen3733 Thank you and I appreciate your invitation to check out your fine looking Protek watches. Looking forward to it , Thanks again Barry ☺️

@lewdwig Жыл бұрын

Protek Filipe

@barrycohen3733 Жыл бұрын

Very funny! I love this!

@xpusostomos Жыл бұрын

Do we really know if it's half as bright as 12 years? Certainly it will have half the radiation after 12 years, but surely (?) The phosphor has a maximum glow, you can't just bombard it with infinite radiation and have the glow proportional forever. Therefore, maybe (?) The glow is more than half after 12 years

@jesspeinado480 21 күн бұрын

I was ready to order the field watch until it was mentioned it doesn't have a screw down crown. WTF? Why when the other 3 do? No excuse for any outdoors, sport or field watch not to. Is it stupidity or trying to maximize profits? It's only a miyota and over priced at nearly $500. Put in a Sellita movement and screw down and $500 would be reasonable.

@derbagger22 Жыл бұрын

I want a prize

@islandwatch Жыл бұрын

Buy a watch, and we will send it to you. LOL

@mountainclawoutdoors Жыл бұрын

You won

@Happy357mag Жыл бұрын

When I was a kid we didn't have much money so I had to wear cheap bobo sneakers. All the cool kids would make fun of me because I wasn't wearing Nike or Reebok. I hated Family Dollar's "PROTEK" sneakers and would never wear anything with that name again. Looking back, I was lucky I had shoes because even today, some kids don't.

@islandwatch Жыл бұрын

That's some story! And yes, you are fortunate!

@barrycohen3733 Жыл бұрын

Clearly I was a kid before you as those in my age group wore Converse Chuck Taylors. But I also liked Keds and people made fun of that.

@87engr Жыл бұрын

It Protek, it also attak, but most importantly, it glows in the dark! .... (I'm sorry.) By the way, I would love to see Islanders with tritium... although I can imagine what a pain it would be to deal with all the NRC regulations.

@islandwatch Жыл бұрын

it sure is!

@barrycohen3733 4 ай бұрын

@@islandwatch ... and I am here to help you with this, Marc.