Scratch Test Sapphire Vs Seiko Hardlex Vs Mineral Crystal Watch Glass Comparison Which is best?
Scratch Test Sapphire Vs Seiko Hardlex Vs Mineral Crystal Watch Glass Comparison Which is best?
Which is best type of watch crystal? Hardlex vs Mineral vs Sapphire Watch Glass Comparison – Scratch Test Sapphire Vs Seiko Hardlex Vs Mineral Crystal – Using Household Items Which is the best?
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Every time you hit on your watch, I can feel the shock wave on its movement… Poor Seiko ^^
Hey chris, that bezel fade looks awesome! Did you fade it yourself or is it natural?
Now you should do a video on polly watch.
That why AR coatings should be on the underside…
Great vid. Made me feel happy with my recent upgrade to sapphire. Subscribed!
Waste of time
Seiko has no reason of putting mineral glass in their 250+ dollar watches. Its just to save costs. Orient divers starting from the kamasu all have sapphire, and there are even cheaper watches that have sapphire. And if they were really going for the "shatter resistance" like they say they do, then i would prefer they went with acrylic like the vostok amphibia for example. You can use polywatch to polish the scratches out, and it is more shatter resistant than mineral.
Bought a $300 cocktail time with a hardlex. Got scratches. Never buying mineral crystal again unless its a cheap quartz like a Casio or Timex.
My Seiko watch is scratched lime hell, the glass basically only consists of scratches at this point
8:30
Your watch startend working again… Now I know that works lol
Thanks for showing this video, Is good scratch test.
Damn the difference is actually huge. I already refused to buy hardlex but there you have it.
I’m working in factory producing electric engines and that means working with tools, sandpapers, different type of steel etc. My sapphire on my citizen is good as new, and it suffered a few knocks also and survived. I really don’t get it why seiko put sapphire one $500+ pieces only
dude i nearly died ! hahaha thank you for the video i learned a lot!
thank you so much for this video
In conclusion Hardlex harder than mineral crystal is only marketing hoax
Watches with sapphire crystal are expensive but totally worth it.
Great video–although I do think it’s funny that you used the crystal in your actual watch, rather than just ordering another cheap one for the test. As others have said, I appreciate you taking one for the team!
Watches will not come in contact with coral. Divers don’t wear dive watches. They wear dive COMPUTERS on their wrists. Think a G-shock scaled up a bit. LCD display showing depth, time remaining at that depths before needing decompression, etc. Some even have wireless transmitters attached to the regulator that will transmit the air left in the tank to the computer.
Making me so nervous watching u test your good seiko sapphire
Interesting informative video. Thanks.
I’m honestly shocked at the durability of the AR coating. I have a couple watches with sapphire, no scratches in the glass but one has a single scratch in the AR coating. Definitely my crystal of choice. Actually getting my Citizen Avion fitted with sapphire
Thank you so much for this video Chris!
I don’t understand Seiko what they want from they "Hardlex?
Only Diamond or a sapphire can scratch the sapphire crystal.
pretty cool I subbed!
Just for a heads up your screwdriver is not stainless steel
Me at the point of the dremmel test. "You Sir deserve a subscription." Done.
..and yet Seiko won’t give you a sapphire unless you give them at least 6-700€ for a watch. That is why I’ll hardly become a customer of them.
I have a Sea Wolf that’s 30 years old and the saphire crystal is unblemished, nothing compares.
Seiko hardlex is one the most useless invention
I work at a Watch repair shop in Scottsdale, AZ. We are authorized Seiko dealers, last week our Seiko rep came to our store and informed us that they are trying to use Sapphire more and more in there upcoming watch lines. Hardee’s will still be used. Also he informed me that the price point of Seikos will be increasing, the cheaper Seiko 5s with the 7s26 are being fazed out.
Now that’s putting your money where your mouth is!!
Sapphire is the best.
This screw driver isn’t stainless.. It’s either carbon steel or chromium-vanadium steel. Stainless is mostly common in knifes/blades.
Time to change the sapphire again XD
Why don’t they apply reflective coating underside of the sapphire glass ?
Great video! Thanks for doing this
Many thanks for your sacrifice.
I can get scratches out off sapphire using a Dremel and diamond paste but it takes a lot off work!
You should just get rid off the AR coating anyway now. A lot of people actually do this on purpose. Because the AR coating will probably scratch away anyway in the long run and will be annoying to look at.
I’ve never scratched sapphire. Everything else, yes. Seiko should stick to using hardlex on their case backs only.