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Never!! My dad was one of the pioneers of 3M who invented resin bond sandpaper, and one of his younger cohorts was the person who invented Scotch-Brite. (And he was a guy who was AT LEAST as crazy as me, if not more so.) To my knowledge, the Green Scotch-Brite has grade 240 silicon carbide in it, (the same abrasive as 3M Grade 240 Wetordry sandpaper) and it's a pretty effective abrasive for metal REMOVAL. After all, why do you think it's been so popular for scrubbing hard carbon deposits off pots and pans, and sending steel wool to the same place as the buggy whip?
Besides never exposing my watch to an abrasive that sharp with a particle size that big, I just don't plain believe in trying to polish out small scratches. I bought a Ti SeMP becase it was as bombproof a watch as I could get, and it's going to wear with time. As Chuck Maddox has said:
"Hey, don't knock patina, baby..."
I'm not about to try to erase any scratches off my watch that I got/am going to get sailing the Caribbean, or diving down to the bottom of the %&$&**&%*&%& harbor at Jost Van Dyke to make sure my anchor set properly. Those aren't scratches, those are MEMORIES!!
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