-
When I was a kid I found an old watch which I repaired and wore for a while. It had a scratched up screen, my DT teacher had a bench grinder but you could take off the grinding stone and put a buffing thing on. He put a bit of brasso or soemthing on it and buffed out the scratches on the screen. Worked well as far as I can remember.
Tonts-
So I was looking at various ways to polish the crystal, and sniffing around for spares, when I found a NOS example on eBay. The buttons have deteriorated somehow (demoing it?) and it has worse screen bleed than mine, but the case is of course pristine.
I found a thread on a watch forum where some folks were discussing screen bleed, and apparently it's from poor edge sealing and is just air working its way in from the edge, and with a bit of luck can be reversed with some careful squeezing. And can possibly be prevented from recurring by sealing the edge with something...
Also there's someone who sells decals to replace the button mush. It's a bit crap compared to proper buttons, but maybe I can mold some clear plastic over the top somehow...
I ummed and ahhed for a few hours and then slept on it. This morning I was like fuck it, NOS is hen's teeth. Maybe I can wind up with two fully repaired examples, and then I can sell the beat up one.
Kimmo
Nice one!
There are some unsightly scratches across the middle of the crystal (which is proper stuff, not plastic)... Wondering if there's a feasible method of polishing them out, preferably without removing it... It's somewhere around 0.12mm proud of the surround.