Anti Reflective Coating

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Life is what happens when you think nothing is happening. Twenty years from now that scratch will be a great memory.

Have fun wear more than one.

-kfw

I'm not saying this to be a smartass or in any negative way, as this is just an observation that always makes me laugh a bit: It seems a lot of watch enthusiasts talk about scratches, scrapes and bumps being later reminders of great memories and adventures. I guess I don't live an exciting enough life because just about every ding I've put on any watch I've ever owned was incurred not by some grand adventure but more like moments in careless stupidity I'd prefer to forget. I'm not trying to remember the 35 times I banged a watch on a doorway molding as I rounded a corner, or the time I knocked it against a metal handrail at a movie theater while carrying my popcorn, or when I got too animated about something on TV and threw my arm back into the wall behind me while forgetting I had a watch on. I'm not overly OCD, watches get scratched, etc., and it's not the end of the world for me. I'm just saying I don't own a single watch I can look at and say, oh there's that dent I put in the bezel when I fell down upon landing during that one particular skydiving episode, or maybe it was the time I crashed while leading the Indy 500 LOL
 
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I do not know the type AR coating that watch companies use on crystals. A friend of mine owns an optical lab. As a favor he AR coated the crystal on this Seiko. I have several watches with AR coated crystals but none of the other watches crystals compare to the coating on this crystal. From time to time other watch collectors will ask me hey you have a crystal in that watch. So far over four years and no scratches.
 
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I'm not saying this to be a smartass or in any negative way, as this is just an observation that always makes me laugh a bit: It seems a lot of watch enthusiasts talk about scratches, scrapes and bumps being later reminders of great memories and adventures. I guess I don't live an exciting enough life because just about every ding I've put on any watch I've ever owned was incurred not by some grand adventure but more like moments in careless stupidity I'd prefer to forget. I'm not trying to remember the 35 times I banged a watch on a doorway molding as I rounded a corner, or the time I knocked it against a metal handrail at a movie theater while carrying my popcorn, or when I got too animated about something on TV and threw my arm back into the wall behind me while forgetting I had a watch on. I'm not overly OCD, watches get scratched, etc., and it's not the end of the world for me. I'm just saying I don't own a single watch I can look at and say, oh there's that dent I put in the bezel when I fell down upon landing during that one particular skydiving episode, or maybe it was the time I crashed while leading the Indy 500 LOL
Thank you for that. I may have been a bit dramatic. In my mind to my somewhat convoluted way of thinking i was going more for the "it was my first" kind of vibe. Something one might smile about every now and then. Thank you for the reality check.

Have fun
-kfw
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I'm not saying this to be a smartass or in any negative way, as this is just an observation that always makes me laugh a bit: It seems a lot of watch enthusiasts talk about scratches, scrapes and bumps being later reminders of great memories and adventures. I guess I don't live an exciting enough life because just about every ding I've put on any watch I've ever owned was incurred not by some grand adventure but more like moments in careless stupidity I'd prefer to forget. I'm not trying to remember the 35 times I banged a watch on a doorway molding as I rounded a corner, or the time I knocked it against a metal handrail at a movie theater while carrying my popcorn, or when I got too animated about something on TV and threw my arm back into the wall behind me while forgetting I had a watch on. I'm not overly OCD, watches get scratched, etc., and it's not the end of the world for me. I'm just saying I don't own a single watch I can look at and say, oh there's that dent I put in the bezel when I fell down upon landing during that one particular skydiving episode, or maybe it was the time I crashed while leading the Indy 500 LOL

No need to laugh, 😉 Send me a watch for a few weeks 😁😁

Worn weekly and bashed against the side of the boat fishing for meter plus barramundi in crocodile infested rivers in the Northern Territory Australia.

 
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Thank you for that. I may have been a bit dramatic. In my mind to my somewhat convoluted way of thinking i was going more for the "it was my first" kind of vibe. Something one might smile about every now and then. Thank you for the reality check.

Have fun
-kfw

Understand completely, and I really wasn't giving you ****. It just reminded me that I hear or read watch enthusiasts talking about this all the time. That one guy on youtube, the Urban Gentry--who makes some interesting and informative videos--is always going on about scrapes and bumps being scars from "great adventures," and I can't help but wonder what his definition of an adventure is LOL
 
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No need to laugh, 😉 Send me a watch for a few weeks 😁😁

Worn weekly and bashed against the side of the boat fishing for meter plus barramundi in crocodile infested rivers in the Northern Territory Australia.]

Now THAT there, I'm with you. Thing is, I actually do my fair share of fun, interesting things and I travel around the world frequently enough. But easily more than 90 percent of the hits I've ever put on a watch come not from those things but, as I said, from silly absent-minded nonsense. That's the part that makes me laugh about it.