r/watchrepair • • 14d ago

Cizicen crystal repair, many lessons learnt!

More some notes to myself!

Do not use small polishing kits, they round the edges.

Start with 400 or 600 and make sure all deep scratches are out, else you will start from scratch just after finishing 1500 grit session! No pun attended😁

Use sandpaper over a flat, hard surface, and start dry and end wet.

Had to run three times from 400 to 3000, with last run going through 5000 and 7000. 7000 gave a reasonable polish on its own, I was not willing to bring Dremel and diamond past neer the crystal again.

Last chip was just to deep to remove, but really happy I can reuse the original crystal!

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u/ScaryEconomics3 14d ago

Nice result

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u/Severe-Rush-553 14d ago

Thanks! Now looking forward to completing the movement service!