Any tips for cleaning a watch?
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Any tips for cleaning a watch?
The subject line says it all. Any tips? Or more importantly, anything to NOT do? (It’s a stainless steel watch.)
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Re: Any tips for cleaning a watch?
DO NOT put your watch in an ultrasonic cleaner! Ultrasonic baths should only be used for bracelets, never the watch itself.
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Re: Any tips for cleaning a watch?
Assuming it is remotely waterproof and your sure it's resistance is intact, wash in warm soapy water and brush gently with a soft old tootbrush particularly in the nooks and crannies where gunk gathers. If you can, remove the strap/bracelet first and if a steel bracelet clean in the same fashion or in an ultrasonic cleaner as Lavaine has advised.
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Re: Any tips for cleaning a watch?
My method re steel sports or dive watches that are worn on a bracelet, rubber, sailcloth or Nato is to rinse them under a tap when I take them off, using soap if they have been worn in the sea, for cooking, or for anything else that would get them grubby.
If the watch is on a leather strap, it’s not likely it has been worn for more than a couple of hours doing something inactive like lunch or dinner, so only gets cleaned every now and then, with the strap removed.
Neil
If the watch is on a leather strap, it’s not likely it has been worn for more than a couple of hours doing something inactive like lunch or dinner, so only gets cleaned every now and then, with the strap removed.
Neil
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