Polishing Tips?

Nice my friend 👌 looked for one of these bracelets myself closest thing to modern gs in vintage seiko bracelets,good job.

Thanks - yeah, I used to dislike the “rolled” bracelets, but now I kinda look forward to the rattle. Need to find a head unit now to match it.

Looking forward to seeing what you pick my friend,lifetime of option in that era of seiko lot of up to gs standards in my opinion 👌

My wife has used that exact same set up with a Dremel and Mothers polish. You did well!

Rad - I was looking at the cordless, but, well, I’m cheap ;)

If I find one of my current or newly acquired watches needs a clean and a shine, I hand polish using Autosol and cotton wool balls or a microfibre cloth.

This tends to do the trick and you don't really have to worry about issues with overpolishing.

Thanks!!!

Mmmm I don't polish anything other than mineral crystals 🤷‍♂️

Get vinegar and baking soda, leave for a few hours.. get an electric toothbrush and go to town removing all the gunk, then polish with some compound. You are welcome 😁

Thanks!!!

I hear Cape Cod polishing cloths work well. Haven’t tried them yet, but I might have to if I ever have any bracelets that are totally jacked up.

I have cape cod, it's more expensive than vinegar and baking powder, it's also not a permanent fix for actual marks on stainless steel.. for that you need a Dremel tool and some care

Cape Cods remove metal too and can be dangerous to vintage bracelets and cases, so be really careful

Ah lol I see. Well thanks for the tip 👌🏽🤣

All I gotta say, is you got bigger cojones than I do. I wouldn’t dare try that on my own. Good job though! Seriously, amazing work.

You telling me I got something worth something ;)

King Seiko bracelets are worth a premium, Ditto to signed buckles, if you have a gold cap signed buckle double up your money

Beautiful job! I’ve got to get a dremel one of these days

I'll do a post on what I do and use to go from the left to the right...

And the top left looking like the bottom right.

I only use warm water n bit of dishwashing liquid 😃

Polishing really doesn't have to be scary.. there isn't much you can mess up a lot of times. Especially if there's only one finish on what you're working on.

I wanna start practicing more on old beat up bracelets like these. It looks fun.

Looks great. I though about trying Cape Cod Polishing Co clothes on a polished side. Saw a video on IG about it but have never tried.

I hear ya. Unfortunately, I don’t think any of my watches have just a single finish on the bracelet. Only one that does is the Black Bay 54. But I get your point.

To be fair, my most expensive watch costs less than that bracelet. So it's easy for me to be overly confident with a polisher. Worst case scenario I'm out a few bucks on a readily available part

😅😅 You make another good point!!

I think toothpaste and a soft toothbrush are enough.

Awesome!! I have both, tools and compound but I used to use the Mothers’s compound to clean out old blackened exhaust tips on my cars but havnt had to use it for my bracelet !! I will eventually try and use the dremel for more polishing as well 🍻

It's nothing to be scared of, cape cod is OK,, but dremel & Autosol work really well, then a dunk in the ultrasonic..... Mmmm shinney 🌞

I've dremmeled the pants of these 😂

Do you mean this one?

Beautiful watch, it looks like a 4843? I have a 4843 8041 and a 4843 8100, the latter had a 14kt GF bracelet as standard (far right), extremely rare. The underside of the clasp denotes the material in the bracelet, Stainless Steel L is another common one on high end Seiko, that's basically surgical grade stainless steel. The 4843 8041 came with a brown leather strap and a signed GQ buckle which I sourced from Japan, it wasn't cheap. My watches are missing as they are with my watchmaker