Prof’s Crystals
I want to thank RWi, its members and moderators for having such an interesting and engaging place to spend my time and to help spread the word about my passion: watch crystal AR coating.
As a child, I grew up in the watch business because my mother worked for Patek Phillipe in New York City. I remember her bringing home parts of watches and I spent hours and hours playing with them. I could never find enough parts to put a complete watch together, but then I was about 7 years old.
Later on I started buying Rolex, Pateks and similar watches.
For several years I was a professor at a University in Colorado, hence the title "prof".
Then I retired.
I got bored and began a company that bought, refinished and sold heavy equipment: Think John Deere, Caterpillar, Vermeer; excavators, backhoes, chippers etc and a few Peterbuilt and Kenworth tractors etc. Eventually liquidated that business.
I thought that was probably enough careers in one lifetime but I got hooked on watch crystals.
My first rep purchase was an Audemars Piguet Diver that had a highly detailed dial. Driving up I-25 north of Denver with my arm out the window I kept looking at that beautiful watch but it kept reflecting the sun. I wanted to see that amazing dial without all those reflections.
I decided that, since I had an appropriate research background, I would design an anti-reflective coating that would make the crystal virtually disappear. That idea came to fruition about 5 years and a number of mistakes and dead ends later.
Since then I have continued refining my process.
I do not service movements, but I can fix minor issues, sometimes; and if the problem is beyond my scope I know enough to send my watches to someone who loves and has been working on watch movements for a long, long time.
When it comes to anti-reflective coating on sapphire watch crystals however, I consider myself an expert, and that is what I spend most of my time doing.
Check out some of the pictures below of what my AR can do for some watches and a side-by-side comparison of stock AR versus my anti-reflective coating. I will have another posting showing costs that will help you decide if and what you might need done, and I am working on developing a web page.
Have fun and always, always go happy tick tocking along!
HERE ARE SOME PICTURES. THERE ARE MANY MORE FROM CUSTOMERS ETC, BUT I DID NOT WANT THIS INTRO TO BE TOO LONG:
FIRST 2 ARE FROM A CUSTOMER
TO SHOW DIFF BETWEEN REP AR AND MY AR
FULL 2XAR ON ROLEX
FULL 2XAR ON AP DIVER CHRONO
FULL 2XAR ON 2017 RG AP
FULL 2XAR ON PELAGOS ZF
FULL AR ON AP PANDA
CUSTOMER PIC ON AP15400
I want to thank RWi, its members and moderators for having such an interesting and engaging place to spend my time and to help spread the word about my passion: watch crystal AR coating.
As a child, I grew up in the watch business because my mother worked for Patek Phillipe in New York City. I remember her bringing home parts of watches and I spent hours and hours playing with them. I could never find enough parts to put a complete watch together, but then I was about 7 years old.
Later on I started buying Rolex, Pateks and similar watches.
For several years I was a professor at a University in Colorado, hence the title "prof".
Then I retired.
I got bored and began a company that bought, refinished and sold heavy equipment: Think John Deere, Caterpillar, Vermeer; excavators, backhoes, chippers etc and a few Peterbuilt and Kenworth tractors etc. Eventually liquidated that business.
I thought that was probably enough careers in one lifetime but I got hooked on watch crystals.
My first rep purchase was an Audemars Piguet Diver that had a highly detailed dial. Driving up I-25 north of Denver with my arm out the window I kept looking at that beautiful watch but it kept reflecting the sun. I wanted to see that amazing dial without all those reflections.
I decided that, since I had an appropriate research background, I would design an anti-reflective coating that would make the crystal virtually disappear. That idea came to fruition about 5 years and a number of mistakes and dead ends later.
Since then I have continued refining my process.
I do not service movements, but I can fix minor issues, sometimes; and if the problem is beyond my scope I know enough to send my watches to someone who loves and has been working on watch movements for a long, long time.
When it comes to anti-reflective coating on sapphire watch crystals however, I consider myself an expert, and that is what I spend most of my time doing.
Check out some of the pictures below of what my AR can do for some watches and a side-by-side comparison of stock AR versus my anti-reflective coating. I will have another posting showing costs that will help you decide if and what you might need done, and I am working on developing a web page.
Have fun and always, always go happy tick tocking along!
HERE ARE SOME PICTURES. THERE ARE MANY MORE FROM CUSTOMERS ETC, BUT I DID NOT WANT THIS INTRO TO BE TOO LONG:
FIRST 2 ARE FROM A CUSTOMER
TO SHOW DIFF BETWEEN REP AR AND MY AR
FULL 2XAR ON ROLEX
FULL 2XAR ON AP DIVER CHRONO
FULL 2XAR ON 2017 RG AP
FULL 2XAR ON PELAGOS ZF
FULL AR ON AP PANDA
CUSTOMER PIC ON AP15400
