Marvin M104 Watch Review

There is SuperLumiNova applied on most of the hour markers and the hands. You'll need a rich amount of sunlight to charge them. The M104 is not the best watch for night viewing, but at least it does have some lume. Luminant is tricky in that you really need to have a wide application of it for it to be remarkable. You can also see the hallmark red applied on the 8 o'clock hour marker. The Arabic numerals that are present on the dial are in a font that is being used on a number of watches today. Such as on the Bell & Ross BR01 watches. This is a good thing and Marvin has successfully keyed into a noteworthy facet of popular watches. This font is used on many of their current watches and help them feel more familiar to those of us who are not familiar with the brand.The watch case feels solid and I like the Marvin crown logo done in relief on the watch crown. Sorry for using the term "crown" twice, so do get confused. Another interesting feature the seal of the Marvin company founders that is engraved on the bottom left hand side of the watch case. It reads "M & E D." This stands for Marc & Emmanuel Didisheim, who are the people responsible for Marvin's original beginning a quite long time ago (circa 1850). I've never seen a watch company place just such an engraving on the case, and I quite like it. You'll find this engraving on most all of their watches in the current brand lineup.A great way of summing of the design of the dial is being "functionally ***." Everything you need to use the functions, with some design elements subtly built in. Nothing looks cluttered and I like the ring in the center of the dial that wraps around the power reserve indicator and date window. Plus I like that the date window is circular and not square. The hour indicators are applied and I like the thin hash marks around the periphery of the dial that add to the classic, instrumental feel of the timepiece.