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Aug 2, 2019
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This is like that Spinnaker distressed watch, in that it's not distressed under the crystal (although they do provide an easily distressable mineral crystal at no extra cost). To match the overall effect it would be good to distress the face, the hands, and the inner bezel! Logically, these parts are not damaged when you bash around a watch, but on the other hand they are always crudded up in old watches. from natural metal deterioration. Laco's distressed fliegers really do it right, down to fake faded lume.
Artificial aging of products is a non-trivial field of study, and companies have specialists who accelerate product aging before release just to look for potential product support problems. These guys will bombard stuff with strong ultraviolet, bake it in ovens, and so on. Apple's white plastic iPhone was famously delayed because their aging guys discovered they would yellow.
I will note that artificial distressing can sometimes suddenly look really fake when you for-real bang up something. The fixtures at DisneySea in Tokyo are famously fake-distressed in certain areas, and then you'll see a chunk of paint chipped off of a fake-distressed something, and the realness of the real distressing contrasts sharply with the fakeness of the fake distressing.
I had a plan, now dormant, to use a rock polisher and try different timings and "additives" to get a well-used watch look, maybe masking off the crystal and doing that separately. I wanted a junk watch to wear while gardening. I tried to buy an old Seiko or Orient diver at auction, but they are pretty expensive even as junk. So I came up with my fake junk watch scheme, which got more and more elaborate and expensive. Finally I realized that I could just buy a $5 LED watch. But that isn't me. I ended up buying a cheap Invicta diver, expecting it to get dinged up over time.
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