Georgieboy58
·In the beginning of the year I noticed that the gasket between the crystal and the inner tachymeter bezel of my EP had started to melt and already covered the top of the numbers mostly between the 7 and 10 o'clock positions as seen in the photo below:
I immediately took it to my watchmaker as it was overdue for a service anyway.
You can imagine that I was unpleasantly surprised when month later I received a call from the watchmaker that the movement had been serviced but he would not dare to touch the bezel as he would not want to be the one being guilty of messing it up (with no replacements being available).
I told him I would come over to look at it together.
Over the month that had passed since I had handed it in, the gasket melting process had progressed and meanwhile covered the top half of the numbers all around.
He pressed out the glass and I started cleaning the bezel.
I started with plain dry household paper and to our surprise the sticky black stuff could be wiped off completely without any shadow left and no damage to the printed white numbers.
This is what it looks like now:
Interesting enough, a few stains I got an my hands during the cleaning process stayed for at least three days after.
Cheers
Georg
I immediately took it to my watchmaker as it was overdue for a service anyway.
You can imagine that I was unpleasantly surprised when month later I received a call from the watchmaker that the movement had been serviced but he would not dare to touch the bezel as he would not want to be the one being guilty of messing it up (with no replacements being available).
I told him I would come over to look at it together.
Over the month that had passed since I had handed it in, the gasket melting process had progressed and meanwhile covered the top half of the numbers all around.
He pressed out the glass and I started cleaning the bezel.
I started with plain dry household paper and to our surprise the sticky black stuff could be wiped off completely without any shadow left and no damage to the printed white numbers.
This is what it looks like now:
Interesting enough, a few stains I got an my hands during the cleaning process stayed for at least three days after.
Cheers
Georg