No.
Wagner never made a sealed beam headlamp with any virtue other than
cheap. That has pretty much always been Wagner Lighting's primary specialty—vehicle lighting that (more or less) meets the legal
requirements at lowest cost.
For quite some years, the Philips and GE halogen sealed beams were the best ones available on the US market, and for awhile the GE NightHawks were the only worthy sealed beams available without spending extreme money pouncing on old stocks of little-known options not generally available. GE actually put some engineering skill and talent (and oh yeah: money!) into those NH sealed beams. Not the world's best headlamps—they were still sealed beams, and still had to sell at sealed-beam prices, so there wasn't a whole lot of money in the budget to make them—but a very credible effort. Good quality high-luminance C8/C8 burners well focused in the reflector, good
quality reflectors with minimal heel distortion, and a thoughtful lens prescription (yes, it's called a prescription, just like with eyeglasses) giving a good mix of beam spread and well-placed peak intensity.
GE held out for a few years after Wagner decided to go to China rather than renewing their thoroughly decrepit equipment and Corning shut down their production of sealed beam reflectors and lenses (which sent Sylvania to China for theirs, too). But eventually GE shut down their last sealed beam production line, too, and went to (class? Anyone?)
China. You can still buy a GE Night Hawk sealed beam, only now it is severely nasty garbage which very likely does not meet the minimum photometric requirements, or might just barely meet them, and certainly does not offer any performance benefit over any headlamp that can be brought to mind, including a non-NH GE sealed beam (same dreck). They're much worse than the pre-halogen sealed beams our cars came with.
Sealed beams are dead-dead-dead. There's NOS still floating around on Ebay; if you want to stick with sealed beams, go get a couple NOS Philips H6017 or GE H6024 . Older packaging = better. Like
these or
these or
these or
these or
these or
these (H5024 = long life H6024).
You have to sift through a ton of junk to get to the good stuff on the replacement-for-sealed-beam market, as described
here and
here.
