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****V2 What Audemars Piguet do you have in your wrist today?? AP Picture thread****

theREALgoat

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The forged carbon case matte finish process for the curious...

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theREALgoat - would you be so kind an enlighten us a bit about the process of the matte finish in detail? :)

I'm not a watchmaker, but I know it involves a lot of rubbing. The chamfered edges need to be redone too, since the process dulls them out.