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Originally Posted by fsprow
Materials science background here.
Chlorine is well known to attack less than 24K pure gold. Most often the corrosion products can be eliminated through polishing away part of the material surface. In the worst cases it results in stress cracking of the gold. Stay out of pools and chlorinated water with gold to be safe.
I doubt very much the gold alloy used by Rolex was improper.
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The situation the OP is in really sucks
Imagine if the watch was completely yellow gold? Like a DD?
This would’ve been even worse
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