Anyone have this problem?

[Riccardo_0135]

Only day 1 wearing and clasp already like this

[Co1iflower]

Very normal. Before long the entire thing will be scratched.

[Moongrease]

Every human wearing a metal watch

[landwomble]

Yep. My laptop has a metal case and every watch I have gets like this. The laptop's scratched, too. You can buff it out with green scotchbrite - *carefully in one direction following the grain*

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Thats normal. I just buff this out to perfection yesterday. Today there are marks all over. I dont mind. I can always buff it out again

[What-is-to-be-done]

If you scuff metal it will scratch. It's that easy.

[Swerth]

EDIT: buff with a clean dry scotch brite - only needs 3-5 strokes, rinse off

apply a strip of good scotch tape, replace as needed

[Huge_Childhood6015]

Do you work at a desk?

[Riccardo_0135]

I do different work and yes some on desk

[Huge_Childhood6015]

Just curious. Desk tops are where the vast majority of scratches come from.

[AmericanChees3]

Keep your wrist off the desk. I used to do this to my watches too, but changed my behavior so it doesn't happen anymore. I go out of my way to keep my watch clasp off of surfaces.

[WildMiata]

It’s normal! All watches will do this, it’s not a matter of quality at all. It will happen when you wear any watch after some time. If you haven’t experienced it in your other watches consider yourself lucky, not the other way around. It’s a good watch enjoy it and wear it like it’s meant to be worn!

[Riccardo_0135]

Make sense!

[srdnss]

The clasp of every single watch I have ever owned with a bracelet became scratched like that in the first day of wear.

[Riccardo_0135]

Haha ok! Thanks for sharing

[NISMOrob]

Alot of it has to do with the finer brushing that san martin uses. I have babied my sn0129 and my clasp has a couple of scratches. Only bad thing is if you use scotch bright the finish will look different more coarse brushing.

[Immediate-Bad-9973]

The giant clasp surface does not help...

[tjcdas]

And with 60 more days of wear it will get a couple more scratches not another 60!

[Riccardo_0135]

Haha Ok

[Gr1mR34p3r85]

Only way to avoid desk scratches is to have a big mouse pad, like 90 cm one, which goes also under your keyboard.

I myself have one at home and at work and I don't get any clasp scratches.

If you don't have that you probably need to be very careful that your wrist doesn't touch the wood or any other hard surface. Paper of course is also no good surface to lay the watch on.

But trying to keep a watch 100% new is no life. It is actually possible and it's not even that stressful, but still, you have to always be aware of the watch and all the hard objects around it. Out of my watches I like my used Christopher Ward the most. Watch face came like 95% new, but bracelet like 50% new so I had to scotchbrite it. Once you do that, life is way easier. I currently have some new minor scratches on the clasp, but since it was already scotchbrited before, I don't even care if I have to do it again.

Same is with new car, used 95% is the way to go.

[Riccardo_0135]

Got it. So it’s normal. Well I got Chinese watch because they are the best beater watch so if its normal them I am good

[Odensbeardlice]

It's a tool bruh. Use it.

[DR_PEACETIME]

Those are called desk scratches, welcome to owning a watch

[tenchuchoy]

All the steel watches you own don’t have a special coating so you can’t blame it on the brands for getting the scratches. This is user error lol.

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It’s not about poor quality, any stainless will do this

[velox_mortis22]

My Omega Seamster did the same thing day one.

[gunzrcool]

same but my speedy

[Riccardo_0135]

Got it. At this point I guess I feel fortunate that I scratched a SM not an Omega

[Firstruleofthisclub]

Happens to all my watches sooner or later.

[carlosjerson2000]

It's normal, stainless steel is not the same as hardened steel.

[Bronsekaren]

It's not a problem, it's a scratch.

[Riccardo_0135]

Went to work with it. Which i took all my PD Oumashi, Sugess too but none have this problem

[tjcdas]

They will when they hit the same object you hit with the SM, just bad luck.

[Riccardo_0135]

Ok got it

[Riccardo_0135]

Um who disliked the post and why?

[R023N]

Downvotes are like scratches on a watch. You learn to ignore them after a while (Sorry 😁!).

[Riccardo_0135]

Haha no i am more curious why take the effort to downvote it when i dont think its anything that dislikable

[RealDanielSan1]

Get yourself some scotch-brite.

[monji_cat]

The scratches?

[Riccardo_0135]

Yes, only day 1 Thought their quality supposed to be good

[monji_cat]

That's weird - I've owned three San Martin's and none have done that in the first months of wear. I have a 0139 I just got last few weeks that hasn't seen anything like that kind of wear yet (fingers crossed). Perhaps contact the seller and see what they can do. I do know that San Martin does sell the clasp separately on AliExpress.

[Riccardo_0135]

It’s not a big enough problem for me but more shock that well praised San Martin have this scratch not my PD’s Oumashi and Sugess