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So I scratched my 2 week old SM300 :'(

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Didn’t you know the sticky stuff in masking tape removes small layers of metal every time you take it off.. 😗
Like Elastoplast (Band-Aid) taking hairs with it? I recently had a sticky face-mask with just one hole for the eye being operated on. Took a chunk of beard with it 😲
 
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Resistance really is futile 😁

I’ve created somewhat of a stir here by simply showcasing flaws in a watch I bought a few months ago (and the infamous lug damage example above) — but I have to admit, the trolls/immature types here are really sophisticated in their mockery/bullying, and the cross-thread attention span is pretty good!

So I’ll be around… chiming in here and there, as I see fit.
Go ahead, tell us more about this victim role you play due to the circumstances you created for yourself.
 
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Don’t make me Snorkel!!!

Back to the OP’s pain, back in the early 00’s my (ex) father-in-law let his 20 year old son borrow the family Benz ML500 (this was one of the first 500’s in the county and was very rare). This son quickly put it sideways into a telephone pole.
After a month or two, the car was ready for pickup at the dealer (downtown Chicago in very busy part of town) and father brought the son to the dealer in his car, telling his son to drive the Benz home “and not be a asshole”. Well, the son took off down that garage ramp and whipped out into traffic without even looking- and got broadsided as he left the dealership property.

Always a lesson to be learned, don’t take your watch off over hard surfaces. Don’t let your idiot son pick up the family car he wrecked from the dealership.
 
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Page 4, finally…time for cuddly animals.

Thanks so much Steve for not posting just another cat photo, but something different. I sometimes wonder if I've accidentally logged into a bloody cat forum instead of a watch forum...
 
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And I thought that this was going to be a dull evening at home. 😀
 
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It was a dark and stormy afternoon. Not a day for any sane person to be out diving. But a distress call had come in over the phone, and there was no one else who could handle this mission. I pulled on my helmet and latched it to my suit, gave a thumbs-up, and the deck master slowly lowered me into the crashing waves -- down, down, down into the depths of my desk...
 
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It was a dark and stormy afternoon. Not a day for any sane person to be out diving. But a distress call had come in over the phone, and there was no one else who could handle this mission. I pulled on my helmet and latched it to my suit, gave a thumbs-up, and the deck master slowly lowered me into the crashing waves -- down, down, down into the depths of my desk...
The sea was angry that day my friends. Like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli …
 
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A rewrite of the OP’s post in the Peterman style:

It was my fifteenth mission to the depths, I am no stranger to the hard knocks life can throw at me. Bracelet scuffs and marks are part of the trade, but oh man, I'm sure I'll come to terms with the struggles of that night at some point. I have always been precious with my watches, but dismantling the warheads on that sunken submarine was enough to get my hands shaking. I scuffed the lug on my Omega Seamaster 300 on the bulkhead just as the submarine slid off into the abyss. Damage to my trusty tool by which I couldn’t have known precisely when to cut the wires. That scuff will be yet another reminder of saving the world that night- I’m sure there will be many more.
Sure, tell me to man up and get over it, luckily nobody will ever know how close we all came to peril.

Omega Seamaster 300 available for purchase along with the Submersible Fedora and Angora Wetsuit featured here- exclusively from J.Peterman.
 
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A rewrite of the OP’s post in the Peterman style:

It was my fifteenth mission to the depths, I am no stranger to the hard knocks life can throw at me. Bracelet scuffs and marks are part of the trade, but oh man, I'm sure I'll come to terms with the struggles of that night at some point. I have always been precious with my watches, but dismantling the warheads on that sunken submarine was enough to get my hands shaking. I scuffed the lug on my Omega Seamaster 300 on the bulkhead just as the submarine slid off into the abyss. Damage to my trusty tool by which I couldn’t have known precisely when to cut the wires. That scuff will be yet another reminder of saving the world that night- I’m sure there will be many more.
Sure, tell me to man up and get over it, luckily nobody will ever know how close we all came to peril.

Omega Seamaster 300 available for purchase along with the Submersible Fedora and Angora Wetsuit featured here- exclusively from J.Peterman.
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Great work JayDub!
 
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I don’t really care about the structural issues surrounding spring bars and lugs, my main concern is when the little buggers ping across the floor when changing straps after one too many single malts 😉

And to the OP, don’t stress, it happens to the best of us.
 
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I’ve seen a couple used examples where there was similar lug damage to the OP’s watch, and it was due to several DIY bracelet changes.

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If the bracelet is removed outwards to the sides, the springbar does slightly damage the outer portion of the lug (the metal there is pretty thin).

Here’s a thread where this happens to someone (his pic below): https://www.watchuseek.com/threads/damaged-watch-lug-while-changing-strap.5052807/
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This was due to the springbars pushing out on the lug as they were removed.

Regardless of what is claimed in that thread, I think we all (except perhaps for one) know that this is just damage from careless use of a spring-bar tool. The force exerted by a spring-bar on the inside of the lug does not result in damage visible on the outside of the lug. Just ask the watchmakers who have changed thousands of bracelets.
 
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The infamous here refers to word “example” (i.e., the back and forth on this thread)… not the issue with the lugs. The latter is obviously not an infamous issue (neither is it a common issue).

Read the reply again, slowly. You’ll get it eventually.

At the risk of being pedantic.

The literal definition of infamous means famous for a bad reason.

so… as no one here has ever heard about it, I’m going to go with it’s not a famous problem or even a famous example.

It’s ok, it’s just that words matter, and you telling me to slow down when you use incorrect terms like structural damage and infamous, it makes me think you should slow down.


Also I’ve been nothing but nice.
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Regardless of what is claimed in that thread, I think we all (except perhaps for one) know that this is just damage from careless use of a spring-bar tool. The force exerted by a spring-bar on the inside of the lug does not result in damage visible on the outside of the lug. Just ask the watchmakers who have changed thousands of bracelets.

well what about Ceramic Dan? Huh… have you changed hundreds of straps on ceramic cases?

or maybe you just know what your doing and can avoid then hundreds of pounds of pressure that creates the chip 😉
 
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They’re internal dents… caused by the springbar… upon incorrect removal… that manifest on the outer edge of the lug. Something about that tells me it’s a bit more than your standard external, cosmetic scratch.

Get it?

I wonder what you do for a living?
 
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