/fa/ - Fashion

I posted a while back about polishing the crystal on my old Seiko, and I just tried it out. Total cost: maybe 20 bucks if you don't have a dremel and a piece of glass.

I bought some cheap diamond paste of aliexpress, it was about 3 bucks for 8 tubes. I tried using it with a dremel, and just rubbing it in with a cloth by hand, but neither really made a dent.

What worked well was just taking an old smartphone, in my case a Samsung S2, and using that as a flat surface to grind my watch against with the 10 micron paste. This obviously scratches the shit out of the phone, so you could just use a regular piece of glass or a tile or something instead. This worked great, although it took a while, but I could see the edges of the watch crystal getting frosty as I ground it down to the center, removing all the scratches.

Then I just polished it again with 3.5 and 1 micron, followed by a felt wheel on my dremel. I managed to put a scratch on it at the end because the 0.5 micron paste I bought was filled with shards of fucking metal or something and using it was a mistake (see the left hand side), but overall I went from having a very gouged hardlex crystal to one with a couple of very minor scratches, and it only cost me 3 bucks and maybe an hour.

Well worth doing instead of replacing the glass, and a lot cheaper.