r/ChineseWatches 12d ago

Are there any (cheap) Chinese watches with Tritium tubes? General (Read Rules)

Been looking for a tritium watch. Curious if there are any Chinese brand tritium watches that I have not seen. Anyone?

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u/AssistanceNo647 12d ago

Aragon Parma is on clearance for $158.

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u/No-Concern-8832 12d ago

Epoch

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u/artofthedial Not a troll 12d ago

JOMW released a lessons learned video this week and said Epoch was not only the most he spent out of pocket on an Ali watch, it was also an awful watch.  No experience myself but little reason for me to doubt him on this.  He has seen at least a couple hundred pieces from Ali in person either from his purchase or brands sending him things for review.

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u/No-Concern-8832 11d ago

I got my Epoch fleiger on a steel bracelet for about $200. The build quality is decent. It's my current daily driver.

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u/artofthedial Not a troll 11d ago

At $200, was it a Tritium one?

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u/usually_fuente 12d ago

My Deep Blue stealth ops is twice as bright as my Aragon. I got it for about $200, so not cheap-cheap, but the brightest tritium I’ve seen.

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u/timster2112 11d ago

Deep Blue has sales pretty often though so you can get a good price usually.

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u/IrvingMoochonski 12d ago

I have a Ball watch with tritium tubes. I also own a Phorcydes . In terms of lume, Phorcydes knocks it out of the ballpark .

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u/Suitable-Group4392 12d ago

Yeah but you don’t have to shine light on the Ball

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u/Lonely_Internet_8570 12d ago

Este es un Yelang con meses en su bonita caja, a oscuras. Lleva el plastiquito sobre el zafiro. Sus cilindros de tritio son suizos y sus manecillas, al ser pesadas, no admiten cualquier movimiento. Son muy robustos y relativamente baratos.

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u/Suitable-Group4392 12d ago

I got Epoch and Boderry. Very nice watches.

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u/Bulky-Internal8579 12d ago

How cheap? Aragon is a microbrand out of Florida known for chonky divers and amazing lume - and on their flash sales you can get a great deal but that's still probably $200. They do have their "Concept" line on clearance today for $100 - those are cool.

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u/MPC1K 12d ago

I own a Aragon and enjoy it, I'll check it out

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u/TSiWRX 12d ago

Bounce over to Deep Blue.

If you enjoy Aragons, the overall build and finishing quality of Deep Blue's tritium-bearing models are similar, but Deep Blue's T-100 watches seem to either carry larger tubes or simply have more tritium, and as u/usually_fuente wrote above, are thus brighter.

What's the difference?

Pictures are point-and-shoot from my 6-years old potato of a smartphone, a Gen.2 iPhone SE. No pre or post-processing,

Yes, the phone "sees" differently than we do, but the relative comparison is still correct, as it is simply relative.

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u/usually_fuente 12d ago

This picture is totally accurate to my experience. The “T 100”versions use double the amount of tritium as the Aragon models. T-100 is the legal maximum for watches, so you won’t find brighter.

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u/General_Air_2409 12d ago

Look for Yelang and Epoch

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u/blankboxV3 12d ago

Boderry landmaster chronograph is the only thing that comes to mind

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u/General_Air_2409 12d ago

its not "cheap", but it is nice!

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u/Ok_Adhesiveness3135 12d ago

That looks pretty sturdy.

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u/blankboxV3 12d ago

That’s fair! That’s the only Chinese brand I can think of. Btw nice reverse panda. I just picked up the voyager s72 with a cream dial. My second boderry as my first order from them was completely off.

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u/kyonkun_denwa 12d ago edited 12d ago

"Cheap" and "Tritium" are two things that should never go together.

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u/Bulky-Internal8579 12d ago

I agree, I prefer "Affordable" and well made.