Brushed one of my 116710xx bracelets

[You]

Looks good

[WS9D]

Originally Posted by gooter

Who pissed in your cornflakes this morning?

Originally Posted by Zakalwe

The OP by the looks of things.

I must have offended him in a past life or something.

[c41006]

Originally Posted by SubMarine

I'm going to disagree with many of the posts here and say it looks awful. You've ruined the watch when you could have easily sourced a glidelock bracelet for less than $2k. You've also destroyed the resale value of your watch.

How is the watch ruined or devalued? It's completely reversible.

[WS9D]

Originally Posted by SubMarine

You don't have $2k to spend and yet don't care about resale value? Seems to be a contradiction or rationalization.

Brother....I have $2k to spend, but I don't want to spend it on a glide lock bracelet. DavidSW has one for $2600 right now...I have other hobbies and collections and kids in my life I'd rather throw that money at when I have two perfectly good GMT2 easy link bracelets. I don't need a third bracelet.....

Second, i don't care about resale as I'm never going to sell it. Resale is irrelevant if you don't get rid of it.

[c41006]

Originally Posted by SubMarine

You don't have $2k to spend and yet don't care about resale value? Seems to be a contradiction or rationalization.

He didn't say he doesn't have 2k to spend, he said he doesn't have 2k to spend on a watch bracelet. Probably because he can just brush the one he already has for free.

[FTX I]

Looks nice OP. It's your watch and I hope you're happy. However, I think there's a little contradiction going on here. There's a thread on first page where a nice 5 digit GMT is presented and opinions asked and many posts advise the OP not to touch it because its 'overpolished', lugs are rounded, not original, and the list goes on. The same thing happens frequently on the forum and the same criticism is shown thread after thread. Then our buddy here posts a bracelet that he brushed himself with a scotchbrite that clearly looks out of pattern with the rest of the original job Rolex did and he gets positive responses. Well not unanimous if you consider one 'the end is near' post but someone even said he increased the value of his watch. I get this is a bracelet job, reversible, he didn't touch the case or lugs, but if polishing is something so bad the forum should advise people not to, especially when they do it themselves with inadequate tools. Just my humble view. No harm intended.

[Jimbogigolo]

This is great!


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[Nikrnic]

It should have came that way when new. I never understood why any GMT in SS would have PCLs to begin with.

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[Bladeshot]

I like it. GMTs should be all brushed, imho. Nice work.


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[Snow-Dweller]

I love it...here’s mine

[gooter]

Had this done to my LN a few years back. Regret selling it.

[Amochosto]

It looks good. I'd never even attempt that for fear of screwing things up. I'm glad you have brought your watch to the spec that makes you more happy.

For what it's worth, after getting my GMT LN (last week), and having a couple of others in the rotation with brushed bracelets, I have dicscovered that I love the PCLs. Before I bought it I had fully bought into the forum narrative that Rolex made a mistake bringing in PCLs. But now imfind tne PCLs are making it hard for me to rotate to another watch.

[Finfin]

I like the brushed look over PCLs on the 116710LN. And even though I don't have the courage to alter my 116710 from it's stock PCL configuration (not yet), I salute you for doing what suits you and giving a middle finger to conformity.

[Time666]

Looks great, your a braver man than me to do it yourself but the results are good, well done. Love that look.