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Meme-Dweller
·Wow, that's brutal
Ma’am can I please have a different table?
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DIV
·Thanks guys!....I appreciate the suppprt.
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Au79
·Damn. That stinks.
It is not just sapphire crystal though. I broke my hesalite crystal on a moon watch 2 years ago. Dropped it on the pavement while taking my watch off to show to a friend. It actually was a spectacular thing to see. LOL. I could laugh about it now but I peed a little in my pants when I saw it hit the ground.
It is not just sapphire crystal though. I broke my hesalite crystal on a moon watch 2 years ago. Dropped it on the pavement while taking my watch off to show to a friend. It actually was a spectacular thing to see. LOL. I could laugh about it now but I peed a little in my pants when I saw it hit the ground.
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Archer
··Omega Qualified WatchmakerIt is not just sapphire crystal though. I broke my hesalite crystal on a moon watch 2 years ago. Dropped it on the payment while taking my watch off to show to a friend. It actually was a spectacular thing to see.
Although acrylic crystals can certainly break, they are a small fraction of the cost of a sapphire crystal, and unlike mineral or sapphire crystals, they do not spread small shards of material through the watch, like this example has:
I've brightened the photo because you can't see all the small bits with the original - the dial is covered in small pieces of shattered sapphire crystal.
With an acrylic crystal, you have a good chance of only needing to replace the crystal, but with sapphire or mineral glass, you pretty much always need a full service to go along with it.
Cheers, Al
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Au79
·You are absolutely right, Al. It was a simple crystal replacement and nothing more. No serious harm done. I guess I didn't drop it hard enough.😉
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hungdangnguyen23
·Well, this is the perfect time and to tell my sad, sad story...
On December 7th, while I was changing at my gym's locker room, I dropped my jacket with my Railmaster LE in the pocket. I didn't think much until I reached in and felt shards of glass....My crystal SHATTERED!!! Unfortunately, the watch landed right on the domed crystal and the even though the floor wasn't tile, it was just enough force to break it. My heart sank and in a couple hours I was handing it to my rep at my local OB from where I purchased the watch originally. Because I also scratched the dial, a full $ervice is required since a dial replacement is offered as an à la carte repair....bummer. I tried to talk myself into being comfortable with keeping the new "character" on the dial, but I knew that it would bug me every time I looked at the watch. Also, it's a really downer that I'll be without my favorite watch until some time in March.
The small piece of good news is that I'll have the spare dial and handset to experiment with or possibly sell. (I wonder if the hands would fit the previous generation Railmaster 2503?)
My god this post made me physically feel pain...
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DIV
·Although acrylic crystals can certainly break, they are a small fraction of the cost of a sapphire crystal, and unlike mineral or sapphire crystals, they do not spread small shards of material through the watch, like this example has:
I've brightened the photo because you can't see all the small bits with the original - the dial is covered in small pieces of shattered sapphire crystal.
With an acrylic crystal, you have a good chance of only needing to replace the crystal, but with sapphire or mineral glass, you pretty much always need a full service to go along with it.
Cheers, Al
Here's a photo I requested from the service center after they had a chance to clean the dial to better evaluate it. What's left are the scratches in the dial. They're not horrific, but the service representative recmends replacement of the dial....
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DIV
·It would be cool if the "service dial" is darker than the original.
I did request that there be no polishing/refinishing.
I did request that there be no polishing/refinishing.
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fskywalker
·Very true.
Here's a photo I requested from the service center after they had a chance to clean the dial to better evaluate it. What's left are the scratches in the dial. They're not horrific, but the service representative recmends replacement of the dial....
Agree better to get a new dial as this is basically a brand new watch!
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hbombkid
·Least they let you keep the dial. Sell it you know someone will buy it and enjoy your watch looking new.
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Evitzee
·Over 60 years of wearing hundreds of different watches I've never a) dropped a watch or b) cracked a crystal. Lucky? Maybe.
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nttisch23
·True cringe 😵💫 Yikes
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Folgono
·Wow, this is painful to watch. I've always been very frightened by the possibility of one of my springbars breaking, letting the watch fly to the ground with such disastrous result.
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007007007
·Well, this is the perfect time and to tell my sad, sad story...
On December 7th, while I was changing at my gym's locker room, I dropped my jacket with my Railmaster LE in the pocket. I didn't think much until I reached in and felt shards of glass....My crystal SHATTERED!!! Unfortunately, the watch landed right on the domed crystal and the even though the floor wasn't tile, it was just enough force to break it. My heart sank and in a couple hours I was handing it to my rep at my local OB from where I purchased the watch originally. Because I also scratched the dial, a full $ervice is required since a dial replacement is offered as an à la carte repair....bummer. I tried to talk myself into being comfortable with keeping the new "character" on the dial, but I knew that it would bug me every time I looked at the watch. Also, it's a really downer that I'll be without my favorite watch until some time in March.
The small piece of good news is that I'll have the spare dial and handset to experiment with or possibly sell. (I wonder if the hands would fit the previous generation Railmaster 2503?)
So here's the lesson: sapphire crystal are very scratch proof, but not at all crack proof.
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007007007
·I have scratched and dinged every watch I have. Not because I am wreckless. But because of random situations like this.
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STANDY
··schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collectorWhat’s a scratch or two
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