Corte Madera, CA – Fall 2022 – Time Concepts introduces its titanium ProTek Field Watch series in its new collection of tritium tactical watches, from the Founder and former owner of Luminox. This could well be the best overall Field watch on the market today given its mix of features and superlative self-powered continuous illumination that glows for 25 years, and separates it from other field watches. All series in the ProTek brand were designed for a core group of First Responders that includes Law Enforcement, SWAT, Tactical, Military, Special Forces, Fire Fighters, and more.
ProTek is proud to have been approved as an Official Watch brand of the United States Marines Corps, based on their quality, accuracy, durability, and superior ProGlo™ illumination that makes them ideal timepieces to serve Marines in the line of duty or in their daily lives. They are also excellent timepieces for adventurers and anyone leading an active lifestyle.
Designed in Switzerland, ProTek is an American brand, conceived and manufactured with the best quality components available to ensure years of problem-free wear with no issues. With its combination of features that include medical grade titanium cases, push crown with multiple O-rings to ensure 100 meters of water resistance, antireflective sapphire crystals, waterproof Italian leather straps, dependable Japanese quartz movements and brilliant non-stop lume, it’s easy to see why one could consider this the best Field watch on the market today. Of course, its primary feature and difference maker is its superior self-powered Swiss illumination system and glows continuously for 25 years with no need for an external light source to charge the system, providing time-at-a-glance visibility in any light condition including complete darkness. ProTek uses the largest tritium tubes available as hour indices instead of numbers and the lume colors put on a veritable light show in darkness, and since the oversized tritium tubes contain more tritium, the watch glows like a beacon in the dark. And weighing only 46 grams, you don’t even realize you have it on, making it a winning formula for a daily-wear timepiece.
The no-excuses brand is “Rugged at Heart '' and created to withstand the rigors of an active, demanding lifestyle, built to handle what life demands in any environment, lending credence to the tag line … “All Terrain Watches.” All watches are manufactured in a spotless assembly facility that has safeguards in place to ensure excellence in manufacturing quality timepieces, with an air filtration system that cleans the air inside, equivalent to an ISO7 clean-room standard.
“All watches in the ProTek brand feature the same unsurpassed self-powered illumination I pioneered with my former brand, Luminox,” said Barry Cohen, Managing Partner of Time Concepts. “Our brand name defines us with ‘Pro’ meaning made for professionals, and ‘Tek’ signifying our superior self-powered illumination technology. In a bit of a word pun, ProTek watches are made for those that “protect” us. We’re extremely proud that our brand has been designated as an Official Watch of the U.S. Marine Corps, one such group of elite protectors.”
“With the prominence of the oversize tritium tubes in this series, we opted to use a movement with no date function – allowing the beauty of the full dial glowing brilliantly to take precedence over the need for a date,” continued Cohen. “Some people love having a date but many find it a nuisance to need to change the date every month. The night view is truly mesmerizing - it’s hard to take your eyes off the lume in the dark.”
The ProTek brand combines superior quality in its manufacturing processes and components, and the new field watches are ideally suited to the active outdoor enthusiast. The Field Series is reasonably priced with a suggested retail of $475.
About Time Concepts, LLC
The ProTek brand will be part of the portfolio of brands under the Time Concepts umbrella. Time Concepts, LLC was started in 2007 by Barry Cohen during his tenure at Luminox Watch, a Swiss-made watch company he founded and owned for 27 years. Luminox gained fame for making watches that were supplied to Navy SEALs after a research and development officer approached him and asked to have a watch made for them that used the proprietary self-powered illumination that was a hallmark of the brand. Time Concepts was launched as a platform to develop private label watches. As the business evolved, it added its own Szanto vintage brand and the Hawaiian Lifeguard Association brand of dive watches. The newest addition to the Time Concepts stable of brands is ProTek (Official Watch brand of the United States Marines) that brings Cohen back to his roots with tritium illumination tactical style timepieces. Time Concepts develops watches in Switzerland and Asia and uses only top-quality manufacturers. Most of the company’s watches are manufactured in a dust-free, temperature- and humidity-controlled clean-room environment to ensure years of dependable service. For more information, please visit www.TimeConcepts.net.