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Re-Finishing an AP Chronopassion case - results


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This poor AP has seen better days. I decided to strip it down, and re-finish the bead blasted sections as well as restore the polished area's.

Here's the before condition:

BEFORE refinishing

Bezel

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Caseback

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Case and clasp

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AFTER refinishing and bead blasting

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AFTER refinishing, assembled

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All the polished edges were hand finished

Below are pictures of the genuine AP, I think I did a good job matching the finish.

GENUINE

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Thanks for the feedback.

Yes, this is a Ti case.

For the polishing, the case edges were first done with a fine buff stick, (vs using a buffing wheel to avoid polishing the parts that are not polished) then final polishing with 8000 grit sandpaper draped over the buff stick.

For the caseback and the bezel, the polishing was done with Simchrome metal polish, and a buff in the rotary tool.

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Sorry for OT, but i cannot seem to PM you

http://www.rwg.cc/to...e-on-my-soh-v2/


He is a long-standing watch maker here on the board and has a lot of work from his customers, all the time. He occaisionally disconnects his PMs so that he can concentrate on his standing work list, and not accept new work temporarily. I'm sure he'll be back in PMs soon enough.
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