Update - I bought the diamond paste and spent an hour yesterday grinding at the watch. It's mostly fixed, you can't see it on most angled, there's a shallow ridge where the scratch was, it was really deep. Happy with the results.
Still wish Seiko would ship sapphire on this.
It's a pretty darn cool watch. And my other San Martin, the Ranger homage, has awesome lume as well.
I fell in and out of love with my green alpinist about twice in the year since I've had it. Currently in the "out of love" phase. But I know that's what it is, just a phase.
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