Protecting your watches! Are films any good?

[kizerman]

The last thread like this got me banned for a week so, no comment.

[Seddyspaghetti]

Never done it but based on what i see, i think they look lame.

[danwang0520]

Watches are meant to be worn.......

[Master_Grogu]

Instagram is a cesspool of poorly hidden marketing, with products directly out of China that extract huge premiums over their true costs.

Make no mistake, you are being sold products all the time while on the platform. The legitimacy of any product sold there isn’t worth talking about, because they aren’t made for anything else but scamming you.

[Bigsoftee]

All my pm watches have protector kits on. the PCL’s covered in scratches do not look good through my eyes. Nothing to do with resale as I am not interested in selling them.

[padi56]

I sometime wonder why Rolex makes one of the toughest mechanical watches made today.And in years gone by before all these plastic stuff, phone apps and rest of today Rolex watch toys.I wonder how the millions of these people managed perhaps then they just strapped there watches on there wrist to wear and enjoy them.And today just look at all the vintage Rolex watches around many 50 plus years old, still ticking and all survived without the aid of sticky back plastic and the rest of todays Rolex watch toys.

[rolexest]

Originally Posted by padi56

I sometime wonder why Rolex makes one of the toughest mechanical watches made today.And in years gone by before all these plastic stuff, phone apps and rest of today Rolex watch toys.I wonder how the millions of these people managed perhaps then they just strapped there watches on there wrist to wear and enjoy them.And today just look at all the vintage Rolex watches around many 50 plus years old, still ticking and all survived without the aid of sticky back plastic and the rest of todays Rolex watch toys.

As soon as I saw the thread title I thought "I can't wait to see what Padi has to say"

[horseShu]

If the OP spent good money to get the watch, then it's fine if he wants to protect its pristine surface by protective film.

I'd say just try it out. It could help prevent scratches for a long while.

And if the worst happens and it gets scratch, you can always get it buffed at the AD or the RSC.

Light micro scratches are fine. Deeper scratches and dings are not recommended to buff as it could take out significant amount of material. Worse possible scenario is to ask the RSC to replace the case or the bracelets.

So everything's fixable in a way, but it'll cost you depending on the degree.

[Nav01L]

Oh boy, everyone do what they want, but personally, I‘d have a hard time keeping a straight face at the sight of this. Do you have a plastic cover on your couch too? Or a big rubber bumper strapped onto your Lambo? Sorry, looking at the picture of that BLNR, this is just so ridiculous. Who are you preserving this for? Clearly, you’re protecting someone else’s enjoyment of wearing a beautiful watch in its natural unencumbered state by restricting your own experience to nasty plastic stickers. And how does that even work over time? Don’t they curl and catch all kinds of grime and arm hair? What if you sweat? And even if they stay on over time, especially where gold is involved, won’t the glue react with the watch eventually? How ironic would it be to have to polish an essentially brand new watch just to remove the glue stains of the protective film?

Come on people, time to man up and live by that very accurate observation above, only wear the watch if you can afford to lose it/write it off entirely. Everything else is pathetic in my view.

Besides, with Rolex, it’s not like it’s delicate haute horlogerie you’d need to protect at all cost. They are not that expensive or finely made and they are deliberately devised as a sort of canvas you can imprint your life onto. The stories building up in the little swirls and scars are what make each one into a piece unique over time. That is the Rolex experience. So sticking them up in such an embarrassing condom is fundamentally opposed to what‘s at the core of their charm.

[thesharkfactor]

Originally Posted by Nav01L

Oh boy, everyone do what they want, but personally, I‘d have a hard time keeping a straight face at the sight of this. Do you have a plastic cover on your couch too? Or a big rubber bumper strapped onto your Lambo? Sorry, looking at the picture of that BLNR, this is just so ridiculous. Who are you preserving this for? Clearly, you’re protecting someone else’s enjoyment of wearing a beautiful watch in its natural unencumbered state by restricting your own experience to nasty plastic stickers. And how does that even work over time? Don’t they curl and catch all kinds of grime and arm hair? What if you sweat? And even if they stay on over time, especially where gold is involved, won’t the glue react with the watch eventually? How ironic would it be to have to polish an essentially brand new watch just to remove the glue stains of the protective film?

Come on people, time to man up and live by that very accurate observation above, only wear the watch of you can afford to lose it/write it off entirely. Everything else is pathetic in my view.

I was just about to say, but you took my words..

[JacksonRain]

Originally Posted by Nav01L

Oh boy, everyone do what they want, but personally, I‘d have a hard time keeping a straight face at the sight of this. Do you have a plastic cover on your couch too? Or a big rubber bumper strapped onto your Lambo? Sorry, looking at the picture of that BLNR, this is just so ridiculous. Who are you preserving this for? Clearly, you’re protecting someone else’s enjoyment of wearing a beautiful watch in its natural unencumbered state by restricting your own experience to nasty plastic stickers. And how does that even work over time? Don’t they curl and catch all kinds of grime and arm hair? What if you sweat? And even if they stay on over time, especially where gold is involved, won’t the glue react with the watch eventually? How ironic would it be to have to polish an essentially brand new watch just to remove the glue stains of the protective film?

Come on people, time to man up and live by that very accurate observation above, only wear the watch if you can afford to lose it/write it off entirely. Everything else is pathetic in my view.

Besides, with Rolex, it’s not like it’s delicate haute horlogerie you’d need to protect at all cost. They are not that expensive or finely made and they are deliberately devised as a sort of canvas you can imprint your life onto. The stories building up in the little swirls and scars are what make each one into a piece unique over time. That is the Rolex experience. So sticking them up in such an embarrassing condom is fundamentally opposed to what‘s at the core of their charm.

You know NOTHING... You may think I'm asking for approval or validation, but no way. Not happening here!!

Clearly you HAVE NO IDEA about my financial status, but yet you make wrong assumptions about how much money I have, what I can or can't afford, and my fiscal responsibility.

Clearly, you think that I'm in it to flip these watches. BUT you are sooo wrong. I have never flipped a watch and I have no intentions on selling the watch.

Let me explain something to you people who have it WRONG, you could cause many scratches to a watch that would accumulate more and more and then have the watch refinished and looking shiny again on a few years and resell the watch to MANY who would think the watch is good as new!!

It's that some of us can't handle the scratches...this makes us happier. GET IT?!? This is how we enjoy the watch...

Don't tell me to "man up".

Please grow up and eradicate whatever is bothering you in life that causes you to post this nasty agressive response full of assumptions. In the event that I am incorrectly assuming that you have a lot of stressor or issues that have resulted in your present character and this post, perhaps just work on yourself.

Be safe and well.

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[doboy007]

Originally Posted by JacksonRain

You know NOTHING... You may think I'm asking for approval or validation, but no way. Not happening here!!

Clearly you HAVE NO IDEA about my financial status, but yet you make wrong assumptions about how much money I have, what I can or can't afford, and my fiscal responsibility.

Clearly, you think that I'm in it to flip these watches. BUT you are sooo wrong. I have never flipped a watch and I have no intentions on selling the watch.

Let me explain something to you people who have it WRONG, you could cause many scratches to a watch that would accumulate more and more and then have the watch refinished and looking shiny again on a few years and resell the watch to MANY who would think the watch is good as new!!

It's that some of us can't handle the scratches...this makes us happier. GET IT?!? This is how we enjoy the watch...

Don't tell me to "man up".

Please grow up and eradicate whatever is bothering you in life that causes you to post this nasty agressive response full of assumptions. In the event that I am incorrectly assuming that you have a lot of stressor or issues that have resulted in your present character and this post, perhaps just work on yourself.

Be safe and well.

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Initially thought you were joking with the BLNR but I guess it wasn't a joke
Whatever floats your boat.

[Nav01L]

Originally Posted by JacksonRain

You know NOTHING... You may think I'm asking for approval or validation, but no way. Not happening here!!

Clearly you HAVE NO IDEA about my financial status, but yet you make wrong assumptions about how much money I have, what I can or can't afford, and my fiscal responsibility.

Clearly, you think that I'm in it to flip these watches. BUT you are sooo wrong. I have never flipped a watch and I have no intentions on selling the watch.

Let me explain something to you people who have it WRONG, you could cause many scratches to a watch that would accumulate more and more and then have the watch refinished and looking shiny again on a few years and resell the watch to MANY who would think the watch is good as new!!

It's that some of us can't handle the scratches...this makes us happier. GET IT?!? This is how we enjoy the watch...

Don't tell me to "man up".

Please grow up and eradicate whatever is bothering you in life that causes you to post this nasty agressive response full of assumptions. In the event that I am incorrectly assuming that you have a lot of stressor or issues that have resulted in your present character and this post, perhaps just work on yourself.

Be safe and well.

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Buddy lest I‘m misreading this, you’re making many more assumptions here than I ever have. Also, I don’t believe you’re the OP, so my post was not even directed at you.

And even if it had been, where did I ever say anything about your financial situation? I just shared my view whereas these plastic things look idiotic to my eyes and do not seem in keeping with what a watch is for, which is a legitimate view to hold. I also shared my view whereas life with a watch is most relaxed when you mentally write a watch off the minute you get it, because only then will you truly be affording yourself the pleasure of „wear“ing it. Again, I doubt you’ll dispute I have every right to hold that view, as you have every right to hold a different one.

Now based on your response though I will venture to make my first set of assumptions today… not a good look you’re giving yourself there with all those caps and exclamation marks…

[JacksonRain]

Originally Posted by Nav01L

Buddy lest I‘m misreading this, you’re making many more assumptions here than I ever have. Also, I don’t believe you’re the OP, so my post was not even directed at you.

And even if it had been, where did I ever say anything about your financial situation? I just shared my view whereas these plastic things look idiotic to my eyes and do not seem in keeping with what a watch is for, which is a legitimate view to hold. I also shared my view whereas life with a watch is most relaxed when you mentally write a watch off the minute you get it, because only then will you truly be affording yourself the pleasure of „wear“ing it. Again, I doubt you’ll dispute I have every right to hold that view, as you have every right to hold a different one.

Now based on your response though I will venture to make my first set of assumptions today… not a good look you’re giving yourself there with all those caps and exclamation marks…

You actually went much further than that, but no worries. Enjoy cheers

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[Nav01L]

Originally Posted by JacksonRain

You actually went much further than that, but no worries. Enjoy cheers

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Look mate, I am all for keeping this on friendly terms, as I believe I have from the beginning. But I must say, I am not a big friend of these allegations of bad faith you keep making when so far, your response is the only post that has truly been aimed ad hominem. Sorry if you don’t like my view on the matter, and very sorry you felt the need to answer in quite the aggressive way you did. Clearly, you were upset. But I can assure you, none of what I wrote originally has been aimed at you in person and your personal and financial standing truly has no relevance whatsoever to how I like to see watches worn. The only touch point I can see is the picture you volunteered, which shows a watch that is stickered in a way I cannot reconcile with my sense of aesthetics. I did refer to that as ridiculous. It was neither an insult nor an attack, just my subjective view which I am at liberty to hold and share here. Others are free to see things in any different way they may like. Nothing else I wrote was aimed at or in any other way to do with you personally. So please, stop it with the innuendo. You are the only one attacking folks here, when you suggest they should deal with the issues you project onto them.

[beshannon]

Originally Posted by edisonstar23

I was scrolling through Instagram the other day and saw these plastic films that help protect your watches. Has anyone tried them? how do they look on the watch?

I think they look awful. What a way to ruin a beautiful piece of jewelry, by wrapping it in plastic that will cause more problems down the road.

Here is 5 pages of insanity

https://www.rolexforums.com/showthread.php?t=715095

[karteo]

Awful but everyone's entitled to awfulness. Do whatever you like and don't ask for approval. That's worse.

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[waynorth]

Wrapping your watch in plastic is like wearing a condom; it's just not as fun as without.

Darnit, the guy up above beat me to it!

[Bozack90]

its like using iron covers on your clubs

[1665fan]

Originally Posted by Bozack90

its like using iron covers on your clubs

Lol best response ever……..

[JacksonRain]

Originally Posted by 1665fan

Lol best response ever……..

Of course it's nicer without the plastic... The clasp and plc look great actually.... The side mode case is fine too.... It's the brushed lugs section that is not cute, BUT IT'S A TRADE OFF....

it makes me happy...I enjoy the watch more... It's not for everyone..

Originally Posted by drrd

Good one

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[IamJacky]

Definitely not a fan, but I can understand why. At the end of the day it's their watch, so do what they want with it.

[Boaters]

Your watch do as you please. Me personally would never even wear a watch with plastic stickers on it. Reminds me of people that go to a used car lot buy a car then drive it around with the window sticker prices still on it.

[JacksonRain]

Originally Posted by Boaters

Your watch do as you please. Me personally would never even wear a watch with plastic stickers on it. Reminds me of people that go to a used car lot buy a car then drive it around with the window sticker prices still on it.

Umm poor analogy, my tags are in the bank.... Car wrap number 3m wrap is a MUCH better analogy

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[shaunylw]

Originally Posted by JacksonRain

Umm poor analogy, my tags are in the bank.... Car wrap number 3m wrap is a MUCH better analogy

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Cars make sense, their are rocks and things on the road that can scratch. The biggest concern of most Rolex wearers is catching a button on a dress shirt or rubbing a clasp on a wooden desk. Plastic on your watch is absurd, but it’s your watch.


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[JacksonRain]

Originally Posted by shaunylw

Cars make sense, their are rocks and things on the road that can scratch. The biggest concern of most Rolex wearers is catching a button on a dress shirt or rubbing a clasp on a wooden desk. Plastic on your watch is absurd, but it’s your watch.


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It help with desk dives. They are particularly effective on the clasp... not for everyone. To each their own.

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[Boaters]

Originally Posted by JacksonRain

Umm poor analogy, my tags are in the bank.... Car wrap number 3m wrap is a MUCH better analogy

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Good place for them don't have to look at them ..

[904VT]

Besides the dress with tags tucked in look, those "protectors" will accumulate lots of dirt and grime, trapping along the underside of the edges. This in fact will cause more scratches and scars than wearing your watch without any. Assuming you have minimum wrist awareness that comes with wearing an expensive timepiece. Rolex are tough watches, enjoy

[JacksonRain]

Originally Posted by 904VT

Besides the dress with tags tucked in look, those "protectors" will accumulate lots of dirt and grime, trapping along the underside of the edges. This in fact will cause more scratches and scars than wearing your watch without any. Assuming you have minimum wrist awareness that comes with wearing an expensive timepiece. Rolex are tough watches, enjoy

Not true... And they should be changed every few months

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[904VT]

Originally Posted by JacksonRain

Not true... And they should be changed every few months

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Certainly true unless you constantly re-sticker them like you mention. A lot of work for a watch that is meant to be worn and that can be refinished fairly easily for any damage that stickers would prevent.