Hahahahahah!!! My ring finger and fore fingers cramped. My left bicep was sore from holding the watch while pushing against my right hand polishing while watching tv. 🤣
Ive advanced from these expensive (considering the size) poly pastes and Ive learned to use sandpaper (believe it or not!) 800 to 1200..then maybe a 2500 grit..then 3k, then a 5k grit to make stainless steel bands shine again and be scratch free,,,and it took a little nerve but sure enough, you can sandpaper scratches right out. Well, a lot of sanding...but, I mean, youre using a 2 inch square piece and using a few fingers. Its theraputic. Then I went and got some Diamond paste off of Amazon for like 12 bucks and, it also works much better AND you get 10 more product. Im not sure if Poly is just basically small sand like particles suspended in a liquid. When I use my diamond paste...I smear it on, spit on it, and turn on the dremel....POOF...spotless (after and hour or two, lol) I cant see PolyWatch having some super secret formula that is any different than youre basically sanding the crystal with grit in a cream. Dont you guys think?? I dont think there is some patented chemical inside the tube?? A good way to know, is to see if we see any professionals using it...and Pros use sandpaper and diamond paste...dont they??
Good job! It looked like a lot of effort, but it came out looking much better than it did before! I love the vertical steps on the dial, it's very unusual. Also, the dial looks much brighter after polishing the crystal. Thanks for the video!
@@AliasEveWatches You get air in a can that you can maybe try blowing into the watch with the case back removed. If possible see if there is a little bit of give to the movement so you can ever so slightly lift it for the air to get to the glass.
@@johanvandersandt8904 I'm afraid to try because at this time, I've ruined 3 watches attempting to tinker. I've ended up always having to send it to the professionals. 😅😅😅
That's a really neat watch. I love the multi-colored dial. And those barrel shaped cases are really neat too. They remind me of my mom's watch looked a little bit like a Cartier. It was cold with a white dial but I broke it when I was little. I felt bad. I remember my mom being sad about it
@@AliasEveWatches Perhaps if I can find her watch. It's a little complicated because my mom died a few years later. My father saved a lot of her stuff but now that my father is going I'm hoping that it's with the stuff he left. It will be interesting to find out.
@@AliasEveWatches It's really funny. My father was 20 years older than my mother. My mother only lived to be 39. My father lived to be 96. He kept everything she left. He missed her until the day he died.
Thank you! Being able to "rescue" old watches is always really satisfying, especially when they're a bargain at the beginning. Sometimes you can find good watches that just need a little bit of work to looking like a million bucks. 😆
Nice video, thank you Eve😊👍. I like the results, but have to be honest, not crazy about the effort you had to put in. Then again, to be fair, the scratches looked pretty deep. Can think of my Hamilton, would want to keep it as original as possible for sentimental reasons, might want to use this. Otherwise I'm lazy and rather pay a watchmaker to replace it 🤪
@@scottlalonde2878 I don't think my dad cares but my mom cares 🤣 My mom is more sentimental with the idea of having the 2 watches (his and hers) together. My dad would probably most likey never wear this but thankfully the size suits both men and women so I could wear it. 🤣 As for the effort, it might not be worth it but if you can get a kid with more time and energy to do it for you, it might be worth it! 😂
I feel like mineral crystal is in this awkward middle ground where scratches are both inevitable and difficult to buff out. Where acrylic is at least super easy to buff and sapphire is super difficult to scratch.
Yes!!! So true. Sometimes I avoid mineral crystal and would rather have acrylic just for this reason. But then sometimes there's a design that I really like and it's on mineral crystal so I have no choice. 😅
That is a somewhat interesting option for mineral crystal. Probably works much nicer on more shallow scratches. I am guessing that you couldn't find a replacement crystal?
It was a pretty cheap watch and getting the crystal replaced was going go be more expensive. I was curious if the Polywatch Glass Polish would work so i took the opportunity to make a video about it. 😁 I ended up using about 1/3 of it so I can still use it on future mineral crystal scratches!
@@AliasEveWatches Oh yeah, forgot that this was 19$... The custom crystal would have doubled the cost at least. Well the polywatch kind of did too, but you get to keep it for future use as you said. By the way the watch is quite pretty. Never seen a vertical striped dial 'tank' watch before.
Good job, my first adult watch I had given to me by my dad when I was 11 its an Avia marina with a miyota quartz, as I used it thought school it got best up very badly and I would often use it as a knuckle duster for scraps. Now I have 2 problems 1 Is that the crystal is just full of big deep scratches and the second is that it had a male end link and the bracelet is too small for me. It would be very hard to find spare links. AVIA used to make good mechanical watches then had some owners over the years (when my dad gave it to me it came in a new nice wood box with a big scratch on the bottom and inside at the time it had cards about the RAF as they had a deal with them at the time it was a few years after my parents divorced so someone sold it to him in his bar or his GF gave it to him and then ahve it to me) My dad was a 3 watch man an omega handwind dress watch, an omega seamaster 300 Pro quartz that he would wear for most of the time as he would swim daily, and his father's Rolex 6542 GMT that my grandfather won in the early 60z on a card game with a pilot in the US. It has never been polished was serviced regularly, has all original parts including the bezel and the origional owner must have asked for a standard non cyclops crystal when he got it, I'm never a fan of the cyclops but when my father was rushed to hospital someone stole it and his pinky ring and insurance did not pay out as the person who did evaluations got into trouble for fraud...... It's why when go back to China I want to remake one. Quite a few company's went from Acrilic crystals to sapphire And 18,000bph-19800bph to 28,800bph on the next model like rolex. So when they did the next models they had a much higher BPH movement with hacking and sapphire. I'm pretty sure quite alot of other company's did the same. I'm not sure what makes seikos Hardlex special I don't think its much stronger but seiko should have gone sapphire along time ago with citizen and orient as its so cheap now. I would say if it was a round watch you could change it to sapphire but shapes like than can be hard. Maybe with bigger scratches a roaty tool with some soft polishing wheels would work well. I'm sure it made your father very happy to get his old freind back. I'm sure most of us have a watch we lost, was stolen or misplaced. I found a simple omega, old by the sink in a resturantebonce and I asked if anyone had lost a watch and a man 70 or 80 said is it a gold omega with a brown strap? I gave it to him and he was almost in tears as it was his father's and he wears it all the time he wanted to give nearly all the money in his wallet over 300 pounds in cash or get me some drinks but I kindly refused I did tell him to go to a jewelry store and get a deployment clasp installed so he can move it up his arm when washing his hands, even wrote it down for him. Some people are so heartless as for many some watches or even simple rings, an earing or necklace can mean the world to them and are worth so more to them than the cost to buy another.
It was really nice of you to hold on to the watch until you found the proper owner! I'm sure the person would have been gutted to have lost such an important heirloom. For the crystal, I think there are some sellers for rectangular crystals but I think it's harder, so that's why it was a perfect subject for this scratch removal video! 😁
@@AliasEveWatches yes same i saw i think only one diamond paste isn't enough there are different levels as you said What do you think about brasso I heard that it can remove scratches What do you think 🤔
@@dianejones8789 It says here 5 left in stock :) www.amazon.com/dp/B08DL335RQ/ref=cm_sw_r_as_gl_api_gl_i_K907BSG37DSKWR01T5XN?linkCode=ml2&tag=aliaseve-20
The Orient Bambino has a mineral crystal so it should work but it still depends on how deep the scratch is and how much effort you're willing to spend on it. 😁
Thanks!!! It was a tough one but just seeing incremental improvements helped me go one. 😅 I kind of got lazy towards then end, maybe I should have gave it more effort.
I'm curious! If you bought this and used it on your watch, how long did you polish until you were satisfied? What was your experience? 😁
That is an outstanding result Eve. My hand was cramping up seeing you put in the work 😆
Hahahahahah!!! My ring finger and fore fingers cramped. My left bicep was sore from holding the watch while pushing against my right hand polishing while watching tv. 🤣
Ive advanced from these expensive (considering the size) poly pastes and Ive learned to use sandpaper (believe it or not!) 800 to 1200..then maybe a 2500 grit..then 3k, then a 5k grit to make stainless steel bands shine again and be scratch free,,,and it took a little nerve but sure enough, you can sandpaper scratches right out. Well, a lot of sanding...but, I mean, youre using a 2 inch square piece and using a few fingers. Its theraputic. Then I went and got some Diamond paste off of Amazon for like 12 bucks and, it also works much better AND you get 10 more product. Im not sure if Poly is just basically small sand like particles suspended in a liquid. When I use my diamond paste...I smear it on, spit on it, and turn on the dremel....POOF...spotless (after and hour or two, lol) I cant see PolyWatch having some super secret formula that is any different than youre basically sanding the crystal with grit in a cream. Dont you guys think?? I dont think there is some patented chemical inside the tube?? A good way to know, is to see if we see any professionals using it...and Pros use sandpaper and diamond paste...dont they??
I don't think I'll be able to answer that 😅
Good job! It looked like a lot of effort, but it came out looking much better than it did before! I love the vertical steps on the dial, it's very unusual. Also, the dial looks much brighter after polishing the crystal. Thanks for the video!
Thank you so much! :) With the improvement on the crystal, it really made the watch look brighter!
Pretty good results! I’d be happy with the finished crystal and probably wouldn’t notice unless I was really looking for the scratches
Yeah! From afar you can't see it anymore, unlike before. Looks really classy! 🧐
👏 that came out great!
Thanks Miguel!! I was relieved that it made a huge improvement!
Thats so cool Eve! I have always wondered about these!
Thanks Johan! They're a bit expensive and I was worried at first if it was going to work. Thankfully it did (but with a lot of effort)!
@@AliasEveWatches It looks super good! That dial pops under the light now!
@@johanvandersandt8904 If I could only get inside and clean out the bits of dust, it would look cleaner 🤔
@@AliasEveWatches You get air in a can that you can maybe try blowing into the watch with the case back removed. If possible see if there is a little bit of give to the movement so you can ever so slightly lift it for the air to get to the glass.
@@johanvandersandt8904 I'm afraid to try because at this time, I've ruined 3 watches attempting to tinker. I've ended up always having to send it to the professionals. 😅😅😅
That's a really neat watch. I love the multi-colored dial. And those barrel shaped cases are really neat too. They remind me of my mom's watch looked a little bit like a Cartier. It was cold with a white dial but I broke it when I was little. I felt bad. I remember my mom being sad about it
Maybe now that you're older, you can also scour ebay for a replacement (if it's not too expensive) 😁
@@AliasEveWatches Perhaps if I can find her watch. It's a little complicated because my mom died a few years later. My father saved a lot of her stuff but now that my father is going I'm hoping that it's with the stuff he left. It will be interesting to find out.
@@201950201950 I'm sorry to hear about your mom. I hope her precious things are there with your father. 😔
@@AliasEveWatches It's really funny. My father was 20 years older than my mother. My mother only lived to be 39. My father lived to be 96. He kept everything she left. He missed her until the day he died.
@@201950201950 I hope you were able to maximize your time with both of them. 😊
Awesome review as usual and congrats, I can only imagine how satisfying the process of finding the watch + fixing the scratches felt.
Thank you! Being able to "rescue" old watches is always really satisfying, especially when they're a bargain at the beginning. Sometimes you can find good watches that just need a little bit of work to looking like a million bucks. 😆
Wonderful result, Eve. Lots of effort, though!
Thanks! 😁 It was a fun experience!
Henloo!!
looks like a lot of work, but also it looks like it's worth it.
Nice, Good Job 👍 ✨️
Thank you so much! I also think it was worth it! 😁
Thank you so much! I also think it was worth it! 😁
Polywatch is a life saver!
Definitely! Think of the watches that no longer see the light of day because of an unsightly scratch. 😟
Thank you for the review
You're welcome!
Nice video, thank you Eve😊👍. I like the results, but have to be honest, not crazy about the effort you had to put in. Then again, to be fair, the scratches looked pretty deep. Can think of my Hamilton, would want to keep it as original as possible for sentimental reasons, might want to use this. Otherwise I'm lazy and rather pay a watchmaker to replace it 🤪
Did your dad like the watch?
@@scottlalonde2878 I don't think my dad cares but my mom cares 🤣 My mom is more sentimental with the idea of having the 2 watches (his and hers) together. My dad would probably most likey never wear this but thankfully the size suits both men and women so I could wear it. 🤣
As for the effort, it might not be worth it but if you can get a kid with more time and energy to do it for you, it might be worth it! 😂
@@AliasEveWatches You're a good daughter for doing this 👩👍⌚
@@scottlalonde2878 awww thanks 😇
I feel like mineral crystal is in this awkward middle ground where scratches are both inevitable and difficult to buff out. Where acrylic is at least super easy to buff and sapphire is super difficult to scratch.
Yes!!! So true. Sometimes I avoid mineral crystal and would rather have acrylic just for this reason. But then sometimes there's a design that I really like and it's on mineral crystal so I have no choice. 😅
That is a somewhat interesting option for mineral crystal. Probably works much nicer on more shallow scratches. I am guessing that you couldn't find a replacement crystal?
It was a pretty cheap watch and getting the crystal replaced was going go be more expensive. I was curious if the Polywatch Glass Polish would work so i took the opportunity to make a video about it. 😁 I ended up using about 1/3 of it so I can still use it on future mineral crystal scratches!
@@AliasEveWatches Oh yeah, forgot that this was 19$... The custom crystal would have doubled the cost at least. Well the polywatch kind of did too, but you get to keep it for future use as you said. By the way the watch is quite pretty. Never seen a vertical striped dial 'tank' watch before.
@@AnCar88 Thanks Andrei! I think I've seen some vintage Must de Cartiers with stripes for the dial. 😁
@@AliasEveWatches Oh wow, I don't think I've ever seen these before. Found the Ref 61 Tank Must de Cartier 'Trinity Dial'.
@@AnCar88 Oh yeah, the 61 looks really close!
Good job, my first adult watch I had given to me by my dad when I was 11 its an Avia marina with a miyota quartz, as I used it thought school it got best up very badly and I would often use it as a knuckle duster for scraps.
Now I have 2 problems 1 Is that the crystal is just full of big deep scratches and the second is that it had a male end link and the bracelet is too small for me. It would be very hard to find spare links. AVIA used to make good mechanical watches then had some owners over the years (when my dad gave it to me it came in a new nice wood box with a big scratch on the bottom and inside at the time it had cards about the RAF as they had a deal with them at the time it was a few years after my parents divorced so someone sold it to him in his bar or his GF gave it to him and then ahve it to me)
My dad was a 3 watch man an omega handwind dress watch, an omega seamaster 300 Pro quartz that he would wear for most of the time as he would swim daily, and his father's Rolex 6542 GMT that my grandfather won in the early 60z on a card game with a pilot in the US.
It has never been polished was serviced regularly, has all original parts including the bezel and the origional owner must have asked for a standard non cyclops crystal when he got it, I'm never a fan of the cyclops but when my father was rushed to hospital someone stole it and his pinky ring and insurance did not pay out as the person who did evaluations got into trouble for fraud......
It's why when go back to China I want to remake one.
Quite a few company's went from Acrilic crystals to sapphire
And 18,000bph-19800bph to 28,800bph on the next model like rolex. So when they did the next models they had a much higher BPH movement with hacking and sapphire.
I'm pretty sure quite alot of other company's did the same.
I'm not sure what makes seikos Hardlex special I don't think its much stronger but seiko should have gone sapphire along time ago with citizen and orient as its so cheap now.
I would say if it was a round watch you could change it to sapphire but shapes like than can be hard.
Maybe with bigger scratches a roaty tool with some soft polishing wheels would work well.
I'm sure it made your father very happy to get his old freind back.
I'm sure most of us have a watch we lost, was stolen or misplaced.
I found a simple omega, old by the sink in a resturantebonce and I asked if anyone had lost a watch and a man 70 or 80 said is it a gold omega with a brown strap?
I gave it to him and he was almost in tears as it was his father's and he wears it all the time he wanted to give nearly all the money in his wallet over 300 pounds in cash or get me some drinks but I kindly refused I did tell him to go to a jewelry store and get a deployment clasp installed so he can move it up his arm when washing his hands, even wrote it down for him.
Some people are so heartless as for many some watches or even simple rings, an earing or necklace can mean the world to them and are worth so more to them than the cost to buy another.
It was really nice of you to hold on to the watch until you found the proper owner! I'm sure the person would have been gutted to have lost such an important heirloom.
For the crystal, I think there are some sellers for rectangular crystals but I think it's harder, so that's why it was a perfect subject for this scratch removal video! 😁
Price please
It's $18 on Amazon!
Dremel saves you from lateral epincodilitis.
use dremel done in a minute
It has to be a really cotton/cloth dremel. if not, you'll end up damaging it even more. I ended up with a cloudy crystal before. 🥲
But polywatch in india is expensive
So is there any other way
There's diamond paste but I'm not familiar with the needed grit levels to recommend any specific diamond paste ☹️
@@AliasEveWatches yes same i saw i think only one diamond paste isn't enough there are different levels as you said
What do you think about brasso
I heard that it can remove scratches
What do you think 🤔
@@sainithramesh I've never used brasso
It’s out of stock 😩
Oh nooooo... :( Keep it on your wishlist! Hopefully they'll replenish
@@dianejones8789 It says here 5 left in stock :) www.amazon.com/dp/B08DL335RQ/ref=cm_sw_r_as_gl_api_gl_i_K907BSG37DSKWR01T5XN?linkCode=ml2&tag=aliaseve-20
Will it remove scratch from Orient Bambino?
The Orient Bambino has a mineral crystal so it should work but it still depends on how deep the scratch is and how much effort you're willing to spend on it. 😁
hard work…but worth it..totally!!..🫡🙌🏻🫰🏻
Thanks!!! It was a tough one but just seeing incremental improvements helped me go one. 😅 I kind of got lazy towards then end, maybe I should have gave it more effort.