Fixing titanium case scratches
I bought a used series 7 titanium and it has some nicks on it. What’s the best way to attempt to remove or reduce them?
Posted Apr 2, 2023, 7:40 PM UTC
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I bought a used series 7 titanium and it has some nicks on it. What’s the best way to attempt to remove or reduce them?
Posted Apr 2, 2023, 7:40 PM UTC
Don't do anything. Whatever you do will make things worse, unless you polish the entire thing, uniformly to make it shiny
This is incorrect. You can get titanium finish pads on Amazon. Place painter tape around the edge of the screen to protect it. I find taping the finishing pad to a table to hold it still works best. Then run the watch slowly with medium-light pressure following the grain. A few passes will remove most scratches, unless they are deep ones.
Read other threads on here about someone doing the same, it # ends up showing unless you do the entire watch and are VERY skilled it will end up looking crap.
Although what looks crap to one person, might look ok the another
The original watch is more of a blasted finish therefore it has no grain, and it has no direction. Finish it with a pad and it will then have directional finishing marks.
Even the supposed videos on YouTube, if you look carefully, it shows are the finishing marks are visible
What? The S7 absolutely has a grain. It runs horizontally around the watch. The Ultra has the blasted finish. I’ve done it multiple times for my S7 Ti and it’s looked almost perfect, the only issue is you can very lightly see the scratch in the right light at the right angle. And I’m by no means very skilled haha