XF 15202IP bracelet mid link polishing

[Accord11]

I have a XF 15202IP v3 which has the fully polished bezel, however on the gen the two small middle links on the AP gen bracelet are mirror polished like the bezel whereas on the rep only the bezel is mirror polished and not the two dual small mid links. I’m attaching photos of rep and the gen so you can see. On the rep the entire bracelet is satin/brushed, and on the gen the large links are satin/brushed but the small mid dial links are mirror polished.

Please let me know if you know of any modders in the USA who can do this.

GEN:

REP

 

[slavix]

On the gen watch each link comes apart which makes it possible to do this. Not sure if anyone would be able to do each piece while still on the bracelet. You'd need a lot of masking tape and even then it can get ripped off, then you have to redo the satin and retry. The end result might not be pretty.

 

[gilrob]

On the gen watch each link comes apart which makes it possible to do this. Not sure if anyone would be able to do each piece while still on the bracelet. You'd need a lot of masking tape and even then it can get ripped off, then you have to redo the satin and retry. The end result might not be pretty.

Those are my thoughts as well. Perhaps ZF will come with polished small middle links when they release their iteration of the AP 15202IP.

 

[Eggroll_96]

Those are my thoughts as well. Perhaps ZF will come with polished small middle links when they release their iteration of the AP 15202IP.

Any eta on that release?

 

[W47chl0v3r]

This should be very easy to do. Apply some yellow tape on the satin links to expose the connecting pieces and use a dremel with a small polishing wheel and compound to get the links mirror finished. Most of the price here would be labor intensive. Any modded with bracelet finishing experience could do it.

 

[majwilliams0308]

This should be very easy to do. Apply some yellow tape on the satin links to expose the connecting pieces and use a dremel with a small polishing wheel and compound to get the links mirror finished. Most of the price here would be labor intensive. Any modded with bracelet finishing experience could do it.

Wouldn't the yellow tape come off with the polishing bit? Especially over time, and with a polishing compound, it could get hairy. Perhaps a stronger tape though would work.

 

[gilrob]

Any eta on that release?

I haven't heard anything yet. Perhaps kobe24 knows.

 

[legend]

This should be very easy to do. Apply some yellow tape on the satin links to expose the connecting pieces and use a dremel with a small polishing wheel and compound to get the links mirror finished. Most of the price here would be labor intensive. Any modded with bracelet finishing experience could do it.

To each his own but I don’t think it’s easy at all (of course easy and hard are both subjective)
I’ve considered and turned down a few requests for this mod.
In theory what you said is correct. It’s mostly a matter of mask and polish.

But the practical challenge is getting the edges and ends of each mid link perfectly polished. It’s not easy to access and polish the entire surface of each mid-link as they cannot be removed in the rep. I’ll be very time consuming to execute. Given enough time and patience the mod can of course be done but it’s much easier for the factory to produced polished mid links for the next iteration.


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[dk0243]

Use the search feature. I did this exact mod on mine.


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[tripdog]

Use the search feature. I did this exact mod on mine.


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You actually created a thread on this subject, yet instead of posting a link to the thread that you created you tell the OP to use the search function - seriously ?

This should be very easy to do. Apply some yellow tape on the satin links to expose the connecting pieces and use a dremel with a small polishing wheel and compound to get the links mirror finished. Most of the price here would be labor intensive. Any modded with bracelet finishing experience could do it.

You make it sound so easy, you really do.
In reality it would be very difficult to do it well. Aside from the laborious and time consuming task of blanking off all the main links, in order to remove enough of the brushed surface on each individual connecting link to get a mirror finish you would end up with a soft edged/rounded surface on the connector links - and the gen has flat topped, crisp edged connector links.

The only way to do it correctly would be to dismantle the bracelet, flatten back each connector link going down to 3000 grade paper, then polish, then reassemble. Anything else is going to look amateurish.

 

[dk0243]

You actually created a thread on this subject, yet instead of posting a link to the thread that you created you tell the OP to use the search function - seriously ?



You make it sound so easy, you really do.
In reality it would be very difficult to do it well. Aside from the laborious and time consuming task of blanking off all the main links, in order to remove enough of the brushed surface on each individual connecting link to get a mirror finish you would end up with a soft edged/rounded surface on the connector links - and the gen has flat topped, crisp edged connector links.

The only way to do it correctly would be to dismantle the bracelet, flatten back each connector link going down to 3000 grade paper, then polish, then reassemble. Anything else is going to look amateurish.

I see mods and members commenting on threads to the tune of “use the search feature” or “we’re not here to spoon feed you the info for free, browse the site” without issue. What’s the problem?


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[grillbrill]

https://forum.replica-watch.info/fo...hed-midlinks-and-bezel-xf-15202ip#post9334736

 

[tripdog]

I see mods and members commenting on threads to the tune of “use the search feature” or “we’re not here to spoon feed you the info for free, browse the site” without issue. What’s the problem?


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You created the thread, you could have just posted the link - it would have taken you 30 seconds.

 

[Accord11]

https://forum.replica-watch.info/fo...hed-midlinks-and-bezel-xf-15202ip#post9334736

Thank you looks like you did excellent work! Would you mind sharing any other photos?