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Zaratsu polishing on Titanium
I thought it would be interesting to examine Zaratsu polishing on titanium watches, rather than on steel which is more common.
Here we have a Grand Seiko SBGA413 "Shunbun' above, and a Citizen Chronomaster AQ4030-51L below. The GS has a Spring Drive, while the Citizen has an Eco-drive High-Accuracy Quartz.
The greyer, duller sheen of Ti vs steel makes zaratsu interesting - some visual flair added, but it's not so overtly shiny. Both look good to my untrained eye!
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Zaratsu polishing on Titanium
I thought it would be interesting to examine Zaratsu polishing on titanium watches, rather than on steel which is more common. Here we have a Grand Seiko SBGA413 "Shunbun' above, and a Citizen Chronomaster AQ4030-51L below. The GS has a Spring Drive, whil...
A very interesting post, and excellent photos in tow.
Titanium, supposedly, takes polishing (and re-polishing) very well.
Thanks for the interesting comparison
To my untrained eyes, the GS does seems a tad better. I didn’t know the Citizen uses Zaratsu finishing too. Do you think they are equal in their application?
Hmm, good question!
Taking into account what Lehippi said about Zaratsu on Ti and the “orange peel” effect, which I just learned about (Tks Lehippi!) I’d say that the GS does mitigate the orange peel effect a bit better, vs the Citizen. Based on this Deployant artlcle on the...
Zaratsu
From Time & Tide The word zaratsu is actually derived from the German word sallaz, which is phonetically pronounced zarats in German. The early polishing machines that Seiko acquired for their Hayashi Seiki facility in the 1950s were engraved with the nam...
It's good but...
there is an often cited "orange peel" effect that can be seen on the polished titanium which isn't present on the steel GS zaratsu polished watches.
