In-Depth: Luminous Dials, What Makes Them Glow, And How To Spot Their Differences

Strontium aluminate is a much more efficient phosphor than zinc sulfide – it's about ten times as bright and glows about ten times longer and the color can vary between various shades of green and blue, with blue supposedly producing the longest glow time, and green offering better brightness The disadvantage of Super-LumiNova in comparison to radioluminescent material is of course that its brightness fades until it's recharged by another exposure to light.Personally I've found that with most of the sports watches I've owned over the years, if my eye's dark-adapted the watch remains legible, with some difficulty, through most of the night Still, it is a disadvantage of the material relative to the always-on glow of radioluminescent solutions (which is part of the appeal of Luminox and Ball).

You can also get some pretty high wow-factor visual effects with Super-LumiNova that have much better permanence than they would have . Source