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Old 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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Old 3 June 2018, 03:03 PM   #2
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Looks great. How did you do this?


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Old 3 June 2018, 03:04 PM   #3
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Old 3 June 2018, 03:06 PM   #4
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I think you’ve just increased the value of your watch, imho


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Old 3 June 2018, 03:06 PM   #5
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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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Old 3 June 2018, 05:25 PM   #6
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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 ;)
How difficult would it be to reverse at a CW21?
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Old 3 June 2018, 05:26 PM   #7
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From what I understand, pretty easy.


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Old 3 June 2018, 05:30 PM   #8
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Doesn't look as good as if I would have taken the bracelet to a local CW21, but close enough for government work.
HAHA! Nice twist on an old phrase I hadn't heard in awhile.
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Old 3 June 2018, 05:32 PM   #9
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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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Old 3 June 2018, 05:36 PM   #10
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Brushed one of my 116710xx bracelets

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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.


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.


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Old 3 June 2018, 05:39 PM   #11
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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.


Also, I hardly consider this ruined. Now if I would’ve done a bamford pvd coating, that would be ruined. This is easily reversible.


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Old 3 June 2018, 05:39 PM   #12
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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.
Re polishing the centre links cost nothing. It’s a very easy reversal.

Nothing whatsoever has been “destroyed”, let alone its resale value
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Old 3 June 2018, 05:47 PM   #13
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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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Old 3 June 2018, 06:24 PM   #14
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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.

Anyway you did a great job. Better than some jewelers polishing watches. LOL
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Old 3 June 2018, 06:51 PM   #15
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Looks good!
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Old 3 June 2018, 07:13 PM   #16
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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.


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You don't have $2k to spend and yet don't care about resale value? Seems to be a contradiction or rationalization.
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Old 3 June 2018, 09:05 PM   #17
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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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Old 3 June 2018, 11:28 PM   #19
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This looks good, well done! I prefer the brushed bracelets to the PCLs on the GMT
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Old 3 June 2018, 11:30 PM   #20
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I like it a lot.

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Old 3 June 2018, 11:34 PM   #21
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You don't have $2k to spend and yet don't care about resale value? Seems to be a contradiction or rationalization.
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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Old 3 June 2018, 11:43 PM   #23
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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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Who pissed in your cornflakes this morning?
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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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Who pissed in your cornflakes this morning?
The OP by the looks of things.
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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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Old 4 June 2018, 12:38 AM   #27
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This is the only way I'd wear a 6 digit reference GMT. LOOKS FANTASTIC
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Old 4 June 2018, 12:52 AM   #28
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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.


One of the reasons I like Tudor more. None of these blingy PCL nonsense.
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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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