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IcedEarth817 · 17 December 2007, 02:28 PM

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 · 17 December 2007, 07:37 PM

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 · 17 December 2007, 07:43 PM

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

17 December 2007, 02:28 PM	#1
IcedEarth817 "TRF" Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: NC USA Watch: 1 day,GMTII or Sub Posts: 30	Cleaning and Polishing your bracelet... 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?

17 December 2007, 07:37 PM	#2
SPACE-DWELLER "TRF" Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Real Name: Bo Location: Denmark Watch: Rolex, of course! Posts: 22,436	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. __________________ With kind regards, Bo LocTite 221: The Taming Of The Screw...

17 December 2007, 07:43 PM	#3
worktolivelife "TRF" Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: UK Posts: 1,365	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 __________________ MEMBER NO.142

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