I have flicked them off with a tooth pick. they come off complete with very little force. Now I am sure this could scratch your dial if you are not careful, but I did not have any problems doing this with other reps. (113 PAM and a Datejust.
A ball of tape or rubber gloves. No scratches on your case back!!!
I prefer to use the gloves as there is no sticky residue when your done.
The rubber glove and your thumbs get a good grip, easy.
Not at all.
Buy yourself some silicone from Cousins or J. Borel. You would be doing yourself a favor to grease your gaskets
every 6 - 10 months or so. Cheap insurance. The grease keeps the gaskets from drying out, it's the gasket that waterproofs your watch.
Just make sure to put it back on tight, but you don't have to over do it.
English is not elprimerozen first language and he is correct, most rep SEL's are too thick in the middle and stick up too high, kelster's look really good, but his are not the norm. I do not think elprimerozen meant any disrespect.
Maybe you should chill out Bra.
NATO and el cheapo spring bars for the ocean baby !!
If you take a watch in the ocean, better go ahead and buy some more spring bars that salt will do it every time.
Grease them up and make sure they are tight. I have not had any troubles in the pool or the beach myself.
disclaimer - I have never swam with a chrono and dont intend to.
Be careful man. It sounds very easy to take a dab of paint and fill a scratch, but NOOOOOOOOO! It ends up looking like a huge blob of paint on a nice even dial surface. It is much easier to [censored] it up worse than it is to make it look kinda better. It is incredibly hard to paint a tiny scratch without it looking like [censored]. Ask me how I know.
Sometimes it's better to live with it as is.
Some news on those casebacks.
It was mentioned on the genuine forum that if your watch was ever serviced by Rolex service center, they removed the paint. Certainly after 30 years it had been serviced at least once, so take it off.
If there is something to remove it, I would be interested also.
I can tell you that I have spent hours with a dremel and various rouge compounds trying to remove a scratch from the glass off my old EL 127. Nothing. Bought a DSN.
I would guess some diamond paste like a dentist would use could get it out, but where to find that?