Ares501 - Mr Green
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Not an expert
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
Damjan
P.S. Is there an option for you to ask Lange not to polish case during servicing?
A concern ?
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
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
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
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
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
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 al...