P6500 Authentic US Military watches, designed and built according to specifications defined in MIL-W-46374 F. These are the first military timepieces ever to be equipped with the patented mb-microtec H3 permanent light technology. Thousands of these H3 models have been issued to the men and women of the US Armed Forces. Now, also available to civilians with the only departure from the military version being the addition of a date window.

The P6500 series of watches are Swiss made to an American design and use the military grade Ronda 713 Swiss movement. They are sold by a number of military contractors and are often known as the type 6 regardless of which contractor actually supplied them. They are still standard issue to US special forces and also used by other elite military units, including the SAS, SBS, US Navy Seal teams and French Foreign Legion.

The P6500 is very easy to read and carries standard 12 hour markings with 24 hour annotation.The distinctive radioactive tri-foil symbol appears on the watch face, as does the H3 (Tritium) notation, because the hour positions, the zero position on the unidirectional bezel, and the hour and minute hands each have a brightly glowing vial of Tritium gas. Taken together they contain less than the personal limit of 25 millicuries. (U.S Nuclear Regulatory Commission regulations 10 CFR 30.15.).

The P6500 series are incredibly bright at night, far to bright in fact for a soldier in the field to wear without covering the face. This is because any image intensifier up to a mile away will spot it in seconds. It is so bright in fact you can read a map if its held close!

The case is made from a very robust fiberglass/composite mix.