Cleaning and Polishing your bracelet...

[IcedEarth817]

Do you owners of Rolexes polish your bracelet often? I find myself on my couple of Seikos after about 3-4 weeks, Im taking it off(the bracelet that is)and using warm soap and water with toothbrush to clean it. Sometimes I revert to using jewlers cleaner/polish... All depends on what Im doing and how involved I want to get. Ive noticed after a few months that Ive brought a beautiful "blingy" polished look to what was originally a brushed bracelet.(the other one is has a polished look anyway)... Any of you with Rollies do this and have more of a blinged bracelet because of it?

[SPACE-DWELLER]

Well, I for my part don't polish my watch all the time for two reasons:

1) I am too lazy to bother polishing it all the time. As soon as you've polished all the shiny steel parts, they get smudged again!

2) Actually, if you polish your watch all the time you risk making micro scratches on the polished surface, reason being that small particles of dust and dirt collect on the smudge from fingerprints, etc., and if you just polish over that you risk that the "mixture" of body fat/fingerprints/dirt/dust literally acts as sandpaper.

Better just wash your Rolex once a week, using lukewarm water and a MILD (!) liquid handwashing soap.

[worktolivelife]

rinse it under the tap [no brushes!] then dry it of with one of the microfibre cloths i use to wax the car [zymol]. agree with Bo actually the worse scratch was made trying to wipe it dry and there was obviously some grit/debris in the bracelet

steve