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3 June 2018, 03:03 PM | #1 |
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Brushed one of my 116710xx bracelets
So I have a 116710LN and a BLNR. Brushed the bracelet on the LN bracelet for some diversity. Can now swap between the LN or BLNR at will. Here it is on the LN. thoughts?
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3 June 2018, 03:03 PM | #2 |
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Looks great. How did you do this?
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Looks nice
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I think you’ve just increased the value of your watch, imho
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The red scotchbrite pads. Doesn't look as good as if I would have taken the bracelet to a local CW21, but close enough for government work. I'll pop it on the blnr and take a pic, but we've already seen that from other threads, so im not in a hurry tonight ;)
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3 June 2018, 05:25 PM | #6 |
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How difficult would it be to reverse at a CW21?
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From what I understand, pretty easy.
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I'm going to disagree with many of the posts here and say it looks awful. You've ruined the watch when you could have easily sourced a glidelock bracelet for less than $2k. You've also destroyed the resale value of your watch.
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Brushed one of my 116710xx bracelets
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Well, I don’t have $2k I’m willing to drop on a glide lock bracelet and I’m not concerned with resale as I don’t really buy to resale. The only watches I’ve ever flipped were non-Rolex. And those all took huge resale hits because of their watch brand name. You missed the point. I also have a blnr. If I need to resale the LN that bad and am concerned with resale value, I’ll swap it out with the blnr pcl bracelet. But I’m not concerned with resale as I don’t plan on getting rid of it. But ur entitled to ur opinion. To each is own. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Also, I hardly consider this ruined. Now if I would’ve done a bamford pvd coating, that would be ruined. This is easily reversible. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Nothing whatsoever has been “destroyed”, let alone its resale value
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Good job! Looks really nice! I'm really lovin' the brushed look over the PCL's. Did you have to mask off the other parts of the watch while you went at it with the Scotchbrite pad? Or, did you go over the outer links too so that everything matches? The grain looks really even and matches very well.
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It looks good man. There are actually pads you can buy (similar to those scrotchbrite pads) that will give you a the brushed look identical to the original brush.
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Looks good!
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I think you’ve done a good job there. Personally, I like the pcl’s but it looks good on all brushed too.
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Nicely done!
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This looks good, well done! I prefer the brushed bracelets to the PCLs on the GMT
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I like it a lot.
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Some of us buy Rolex watches and don’t care about reselling, but it doesn’t matter, because brushing a bracelet is easily reversible. I’d do it to nearly every PCL model out there.
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I would have taken it to a pro, but I like the original brushed finish that Rolex does. Taking a scotchbrite pad to a 8k watch band IMO is crazy, but if that’s the look you are going for...
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I like it! I wish Rolex would give the choice of PCL, Brushed, or jubilee with all the GMTs.
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Don’t listen to naysayers. It looks terrific. Something about PCLs that makes the new GMTs not quite tooly. Good to see that you still have the option on your blnr.
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This is the only way I'd wear a 6 digit reference GMT. LOOKS FANTASTIC
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I may just pick up a gmt ii ln now. Couldn’t stand pcls
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Love it! Put the tool back in tool watch.
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Looks good. I’m thinking of getting my AD to brush out my BLNR bracelet when I take delivery of the new 126710 Pepsi on Jubilee.
No harm done and an easy reversal. |
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