I once bought a new watch and within days brushed it against a brick wall scratching it....to say I was mad is an understatement, I was spitting feathers.... However, I remembered a process I used to use to clean the contacts on motherboards.... Heres the process I applied to the watch housing, the end result is remarkable.
At the end I will explain how or why this treatment works...
Here is the scratch
Your secret weapon a Staedtler rubber pencil (available in most high street stationary stores). Now use the rubber pencil and with some pressure rub the scratch, you should start to see the scratch start to fade...
After a short while (say 5 10 mins max) your watch case will start to look like this. I will also remove some of the finer scratches just above were the main scratch was.
Continue rubbing until its like the image below. The scratch has pretty much gone but there is a slightly dull patch in its place. Don’t worry we will now polish this out.
I used a car finishing product rubbing compound (not wax!) you can use any type of rubbing compound so long it isn’t too abrasive. Available in most car accessory shops
Give it a really hard polish and your watch will look like this.
Now we need to bring back the shine....however although we cannot see it, there are still some very fine scratches on the surface of the watch. Here I am going to use a hard wax (not liquid)to fill the tiniest of scratches, the process will last a long time, you won’t have to reapply.
The final result...the scratch is almost impossible to see, small traces are actually still there but a magnifying glass would be needed to see them.
The rubber pencil is the key to this process. The reason... its abrasive, but it has just the right level of abrasion. The rest is straightforward ie aggressive abrasion by the rubber pencil, fine abrasion with the rubbing compound, final polishing with the hard wax... Pencil cost around $2-4 or £2 or so...
At the end I will explain how or why this treatment works...
Here is the scratch
Your secret weapon a Staedtler rubber pencil (available in most high street stationary stores). Now use the rubber pencil and with some pressure rub the scratch, you should start to see the scratch start to fade...
After a short while (say 5 10 mins max) your watch case will start to look like this. I will also remove some of the finer scratches just above were the main scratch was.
Continue rubbing until its like the image below. The scratch has pretty much gone but there is a slightly dull patch in its place. Don’t worry we will now polish this out.
I used a car finishing product rubbing compound (not wax!) you can use any type of rubbing compound so long it isn’t too abrasive. Available in most car accessory shops
Give it a really hard polish and your watch will look like this.
Now we need to bring back the shine....however although we cannot see it, there are still some very fine scratches on the surface of the watch. Here I am going to use a hard wax (not liquid)to fill the tiniest of scratches, the process will last a long time, you won’t have to reapply.
The final result...the scratch is almost impossible to see, small traces are actually still there but a magnifying glass would be needed to see them.
The rubber pencil is the key to this process. The reason... its abrasive, but it has just the right level of abrasion. The rest is straightforward ie aggressive abrasion by the rubber pencil, fine abrasion with the rubbing compound, final polishing with the hard wax... Pencil cost around $2-4 or £2 or so...
