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Marcus: The AD I got my 2293.50 from told me that there is a special pad (don't remember the name of it for sure) that can be used to buff out small scratches in Ti watches and make them look like new. I have taken my Omega off and looked at it, and the only scratches are on the left side of the braclet (backside of my left wrist) where I can never see them, so I don't worry about it. My primary goal in owning this watch is to have something bombproof with a 300M water resistance that I can wear wherever I am, and I really don't care how scratched up it gets. That being said, my watch has been through a LOT (without looking much the worse for wear) already both on and off my boat, which is a 2006 Hunter 46 that is lying in the Frenchtown Marina in St. Thomas, USVI. I leave it on when I'm snokeling and surface diving, and the worst duty it sees is when I have to swim down to the bottom of Grand Harbor in Jost Van Dyke to make sure my #$^%#&&^^$&^ anchor has set properly. The bottom of that harbor is a layer of coarse coral sand over a rock bottom, and setting the hook there is a bitch. Once you are anchored, however, this is where you go for dinner:

Paradoxically enough, while the TiSemP is COSC certified and designed for a marine environment, in the Caribbean nobody really gives damn what time it is.