I wouldn't be worried

As gold is a dense metal, a basic polish won't remove significant amount of gold atoms, and thus you would not hardly even notice the difference unless you used an uber precise scale to measure the watch before and after polishing.

Then again you could always revert to Platinum, which is a metal whose physical characteristic includes the fact that even polishing would hardly remove any atoms, it just pushes the atoms that we "brushed aside" back to the spot where they used to belong.

That is why i love Platinum so much.

And yes, i would love to have my case looking new each time i send it back for servicing, therefore the highly polished look is much desired!

Dont worry about it, just enjoy your 1815!

From mine to yours,

Stephen

Btw i dont really understand your photo, is that you personally? It doesnt seem to show someone polishing a case!

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A concern ?

By: ulysse.barrau : June 28th, 2012-00:47

Dear friends, I just notice (on the papers) that during the 2 previous servicing of my Lange 1815 in gold (at the manufacture) the case was polished. I don't like this very much as it "removes matter". Would you feel concerned ? Best ...

Not an expert

By: Ares501 - Mr Green : June 28th, 2012-02:33

but I think this is not a concern. My goldsmith told me once when I brought my gold rings for polishing and posed him same question that it will take very very long time i.e. lot and lot of polishing to remove enough matter to be visible by eye Best Damja...

Depends on the depths of the scratches

By: COUNT DE MONET : June 28th, 2012-05:58

Deep scratches will possibly require a material loss of 0.5 - 1 mm. Very deep ones and indentations even more, of course. Just a fine polish, without making the scratches even, will "cost" the case only a few mikro meter of substance. Fine, or end polishi...

Laser welding

By: somethingpositive : June 29th, 2012-21:12

Actually, Lange fills in the deep scratches using a laser welding technique, so even deep scratches will not result in the loss of significant material. They will simply fill in the scratch and then polish as normal to remove only a few microns. This is w...

That would be a repair

By: COUNT DE MONET : June 30th, 2012-02:39

I have not the price for polishing in mind but as I recall it was not excessive. Laser welding is quite time consuming as it can be done only punctually, that means tiny little spot by spot as the laser focus is just a few tenth of a mm in diameter. That ...

I wouldn't be worried

By: BluNotte : June 28th, 2012-07:16