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27 March 2020, 05:52 AM | #1 |
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Does this look like pitting to you?
Even though this 114270 Explorer I own isn’t vintage, and is made of 904L steel, there are some marks (almost invisible to the naked eye) on one lug, that under magnification got me worried. I don’t mind dings and scratches, as this is my “beater”/everyday watch, but I’m afraid it might be pitting. I’ve opened a thread on it on the general discussion forum, and a member told me to post it on the here, on the vintage forum. I’ll be annexing pictures. It seems to be affecting only one lug, from what I’ve observed. So is it pitting or just micro dings? Thanks in advance!
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27 March 2020, 06:57 AM | #2 |
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Looks like little dings. Do you happen to wear a bracelet with your watch by chance? Didnt I see this same question asked a while back?
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Scratches and dings.
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No bracelet, but when I was given this watch, the person who gave it to me got it on the used market, so the previous owner could’ve worn a bracelet with the watch. Also, it’s only on one lug, not both, so maybe it wasn’t a bracelet.
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Noticed this on the bezel, on the opposite side of the watch. Enlarge the pics, you’ll see it doesn’t look like the average scratch. I’m also afraid it might be pitting.
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Looks like more scratches...it’s a sports watch...I am wearing a 1680 5.2 serial never polished....it looks more or less like that watch or worse....and I love it...maybe your meant for newer watches
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Just more scratches. That is not what corrosion looks like, and also not the place where you would find it. Stop obsessing over this.
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I don’t mind scratches at all, I am just paranoid about corrosion. I never polish my watches.
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if the rolex cases are cast, and they may well be, those voids in the 1st image are what are called "negatives" where the molten metal didn't fully flow or there was air or gas trapped in the mold, or possibly the casting was pulled from the mold too early and cooled too fast at that lug with the metal contracting. I would expect pitting would not be striated like in that image, but rather pocked marked like the result of small pox.
Reason they're called negatives, they're the opposite of "positives" - ie, the cavity mold itself had pitting in it (depending on the type of casting) and molten metal ends up filling the voids in the cavity mold - and you get "bumps" or lumps on the surface of the casting I'm not a metalurgist, but did work with castings. Hopefully a metalurgist will pop in and give his assessment fwiw |
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now that you mention it, i recall those images in an early catalog, so you could be right. But they look just like "cracks" in a product we investment cast, had a few early in the production run showing fissues in the casting and it resolved when the foundry left the casting in the ceramic shells longer, to let it cool slower
what i wonder is how those got past Rolex's quality control program, assuming it's a true rolex |
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Nothing to worry about, just wear and tear. Enjoy your watch and don't sweat the small stuff.
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I suspect he'll offer to polish them out, but doubtful he'll guarantee those "fissues" won't return sorry if you don't like my opinion but just telling you what i think |
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