What do people use to remove scratches from the hesalite crystal? Is it possible to bring it back to like-new condition if it has minor scratches?
: I agree. Hesalite is just about unbreakable. I
: have never broken a hesalite crystal in any
: watch. The acrylic crystal in my wife's
: Rolex is over twenty years old. And my wife
: only takes the watch off once ever five
: years for maintenance. But I have broken
: saphire in the past. My grandfather wore a
: Speedmaster. He wore it his whole life.
: Decades. Used it for everything. Beat the S
: out of it. It never coughed once. My cousing
: got that one so I had to buy my own. Again,
: I own both the Speedmaster and the Seamaster
: and find that over the long term the
: Speedmaster will outlast it. For one, a
: 21,600 bpm movement by its slower nature
: will stress parts less. No self winding
: mechanism or rotor to break, and trust me,
: they do break. The unprotected crown issue
: is bs. It not only is recessed enough, just
: as much as on seamaster, but after talking
: with other people who have worn them for
: decades as well, they have never been a
: problem. Go read what NASA subjected these
: things to. Not even the tanklike Cosmograph
: survived. The NASA tests are not opinion.
: They are fact. The Speedmaster Professional
: is one tough watch. Probably the toughest
: mechanical watch known to man. I will
: probably sell my Seamaster since for the
: last year after buying my Speedy, I don't
: really want to wear anything else. Besides,
: where I live, every other Joe has a
: Seamaster or Submariner. Very few have a
: Speedmaster. It is always a conversation
: starter. Now if only my sister would stop
: borrowing it and get her own.
