To brush or not to brush?… that is the question

Please dont brush that watch.

They're not that bad, I think. From now on you can always remember how you got them: playing with your kids.

I often find that the first scuff beds it in, I stop being too precious about it (I still put my hand behind my back when walking past our brick wall). Why not live with it until you have a couple and then sort them out in one hit?

My guess is it's not visible to anyone else.

Looks like you will always remember that time at the park with your kids

Always hurts especially on a new watch. But give it time. You'll learn to accept it and won't even notice it after a while.

I wouldn't try to brush it unless you know what you're doing. Could make it worse.

I think just enjoy it.

Do whatever makes you enjoy the watch more. If this scratch affects your enjoyment of the watch, then you should get it fixed. It's your watch and it doesn't matter what everyone else here thinks.

Brush might be the wrong word, corrected by the AD sounds better 😃

Thanks for the comments guys, appreciate the feedback. I do love a good used and aged Watch, but maybe just a little longer than a week 🤓

And my advice is don't listen to the "unpolished only" crowd and go have it touched up at the local watchmaker if it deters from your enjoyment of the piece. Your watch your rules. Not everybody has to like the battle scars or stories, no matter how much this community insists on it.👍

I was say what you said, but I’m afraid of bullies on teh internet.

So I changed my comments to:

“FREEDOM!!!!”

I'll defer from many of the aforementioned points. I have banged up and scratched some of my watches in the past. I knocked a bezel or two off of a watch and even scratched one up using my work laptop. Luckily they have been on some inexpensive watches (I know that term is relative)...call them $100-$200 Citizens.

I have learned to adjust how I walk through doors and type on my laptop so I don't have those issues (after time it becomes habitual). I don't think it sounds crazy to not want to have a scratched/banged up watch. Whether you get the scratches fixed is your choice and if you do have a professional take care of the fix.

If you, like me want to have your timepeice looking great for as long as you can, don't wear the SMP300 during "contact sports" sort-of-speak. If I'm doing yard work for example I wear one of my of my Casio's that cost $20. If I kill the watch I don't mind. When I'm hanging out with my granddaughter and we are having outdoor activities I choose not to wear any of my higher end type of watches. Pick and choose based on activities.

I realize this is contrary to most of the opinions by the Crunchers, however I don't like my car or truck scratched and or banged up either.

By the way, the SMP300 is a fabulous timepeice. I had a Rolex Sub and now have an SMP300 and the Omega is the watch I gaze at the most. So many intricate details. Enjoy...

Don't fix it. Although we try to maintain the watches in excellent condition, this could be a reminder to you of how much you value and cherish your kids. Don't worry about it and get some more scratches, while you enjoy the company of something more valuable than the watch. Cheers!

Leave it. Omega can always remove it for you at your next service interval.

Try one of these off eBay nail filing blocks, 4 grades of sanding. They are really good for taking scratches out/off

I'm with the fix it crowd. Send it in, get it done right. Its a new luxury watch suddenly not new anymore. Stretch out your experience of the new. Impeccability is a rare and valuable thing.

I totally can relate to your pain. I put 2 nicks on the case of my SLGA021 grand seiko on the taxi ride back to the hotel. I had just gotten that watch from the boutique that very morning.

I too like my watches without scratches even though i rotate through them all daily. It is just impossible to do so. I guess we have to learn to just accept the inevitable. 😊

(The nick is just to the top right of the crown and a smaller one right above the big nick. It's deep enough you can catch your fingernail on it. I hit it on the metal screen on the back seat of the taxi on the ride home from buying it that day.)

I scratched my Tudor pelagos LHD within the first hour of walking out the AD. The first one it the toughest but it’s a tool watch and it creates a memory. If you get a bunch and want it to look new again, send it in to get taken care of. Enjoy the watch! That’s what they are meant for

Can’t blame somebody for wanting to keep their things nice, but I’d absolutely leave it. If you’re thinking about aesthetic maintenance, you might as well wait until it’s really beat up. That is, unless you like the idea of brushing/polishing your watches yourself- in which case, do what you like!

Keep the scratches... its an omega, not a patek... and its your own scratch, so it counts

Leave the scratches, they will always remind you of the time you spent playing with your children.

War scars are sexy, even on a watch 😄 (Life is war and Omega is the tank)

If it's on a brushed surface and not too bad a scratch, I use my wife's soft nail file pad (it has a soft grey surface). It works an absolute treat. The polished surface is a bit more tricky, you could try a gentle polish with some cape cod.

Failing that, some of the other comments are spot on.

Cheers

Only get it re touched if going to sell soon otherwise no , wear it and enjoy it . You will oneday die , & it probably won’t before you if serviced prior to sale :) ( old man rant ) :)

https://www.watchcrunch.com/Mr.Santana/posts/scratched-timepieces-41302

That’s okay. Use it more. Like instead of using it twice a week, use it three times now or more. Enjoy it! Let the next wearer grind his/her teetch about what you did to it. Cheers 🥃

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You know o looked at a few comments before writing this and most say leave it alone. I have a new Hulk that a similar thing happened and I currently waiting for my jeweler to call me to see if he can fix this. I’m pretty OCD about scuffs and or damage to my watches and if it’s bugging you as it would me go get it fixed. Who cares what anyone else thinks.

I’d let the scratch stay for the next decade and then when it’s time to send it in to be serviced, two thing can happen:

1. You look at the scratches and reminisce the time when your kids used to be little and you’d never wanna get those scratches off.

2. You beat up the watch to the point where it’s scratched throughout so much so that all the scratches just blend in and you can have it refinished and looking pretty much new again.

We all need to stop looking at scratches as “blemishes” or “scars” and more like tattoos. We chose to wear the watch, we knew what we were getting into. Tattoos these days are cool, so are the ones on you watch!