NASA-Developed Moonglow Material Keeps This Watch Glowing All Night

NASA-Developed Moonglow Material Keeps This Watch Glowing All Night

A built-in battery-powered light is the easiest way to check the time on your watch in the middle of the night. But what if your watch doesn’t have a battery? Schofield’s new Blacklamp Carbon features a hand-wound movement, but still manages to stay visible in the dark of night thanks to a material developed by NASA called Moonglow that glows much longer than the stickers you decorated your ceiling with as a kid.

The watch also features a small Tritium gas light — a radioactive isotope of hydrogen that gives off a faint glow as it decays — but it’s the strip of long lasting Moonglow, running all the way around the rim of the dial, that will have night owls enthusiastic for the timepiece.

NASA-Developed Moonglow Material Keeps This Watch Glowing All Night

And as the watch’s name and that telltale pattern on the bezel allude, the Blacklamp Carbon is actually made of a newly developed material called Morta that’s based on carbon fibre. So it’s strong, lightweight, and of course, incredibly expensive. The watch, limited to 101 pieces, sells for just over $US16,000. A tough sell, unless you’ve never managed to shake that crippling fear of the dark. [Schofield via Hodinkee]

NASA-Developed Moonglow Material Keeps This Watch Glowing All Night


The Cheapest NBN 50 Plans

It’s the most popular NBN speed in Australia for a reason. Here are the cheapest plans available.

At Gizmodo, we independently select and write about stuff we love and think you'll like too. We have affiliate and advertising partnerships, which means we may collect a share of sales or other compensation from the links on this page. BTW – prices are accurate and items in stock at the time of posting.