Lee's Watch Thread for MM'ers of Impeccable Taste

[SlimKlim]

I hit it with 400 through 2000 grit sandpaper last night and removed or at least lightened up the majority of the scratches. A handful of the deepest ones remain but that's ok, I think it's going to look great after going over all of it again with the polish.

I also removed the second and minute hand last night and used the hand-setter to press them back into place. The minute hand seems to be seated snugly now so we'll see how it holds up. If it gets knocked loose when I start wearing it, it's not very hard to pop the movement out and fiddle with it again.

By the way. You can't really get a sense for how small the second hand of a watch is until it's loose and you're trying to handle it. The hole you can see here isn't a hole, it's actually a hollow tube, and the hole is too small the see with the naked eye. It fits around the inner shaft in the second photo. The hand is so small it catches onto the fibers of the microfiber I was working on and rips itself back out of the grasp of your tweezers. It requires an incredibly light touch to keep it positioned correctly in your tweezers, and more precision than I have to drop it back into its shaft. I basically dicked around with it for 15 minutes and got lucky.