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RM Case
Can someone tell me the difference between Titalyt and DLC case in terms of its capacity to withstand friction and scratches from daily wear?
Which of these materials will be easier/cheaper to polish down the road? Thank you for your input.
Coatings for once and for all...
Hello Guy,
This question keeps getting sent to me in private emails over and over again, and keeps coming back.
For that reason I would like to answer it now once and for all online in the hope it can be put to rest ;-)
1. No coatings can be polished;
2. I repeat: no coatings can be polished;
3. Scratched DLC, PVD, or TITALYT is very expensive to repair as the entire bezel must be bead-blasted back to the metal and be re-coated or the bezel replaced;
4. We do not sell or promote these coatings for their scratch resistance;
5. Even the sleeve of a shirt made of the finest Egyptian cotton will still produce surface scratches on all types of gold - however careful you are;
6. These surface coatings mentioned above in point 3 will help only with resisting those types of light surface scratches;
7. No coating can resist dings very well, since the metal below the coating still can get dented;
8. The difference in surface scratch resistance between TITALYT and everything else is minimal to the point of being negligible;
9. See again point 4 above.
In actual fact, for all these reasons, RMW plans to drop various coatings in the very near future, because they seem to give owners the idea that their watches have become 'indestructible' by being coated, having taken on protective super-powers ;-) !
Hope this helps,
Theodore Diehl
Company spokesman and horologist
Richard Mille Watches
Agree
Hi Guy,
I agree with your decision 100% and I personally won't own any 'coated' watches. But that is just the collector in me talking.One exception to the rule, for me personally anyway, might be the RM055 BW, with its white rubberized titanium case and white ceramic bezel.
But they won't be out until the fall in any case ;-)
All the best,
Theodore
ATZ in RM055
As a clarification, would the ATZ bezel for RM055 be scratch resistant? I've been particularly attracted its no color change, non scratch resistant attributes, and would appreciate your thoughts that this is indeed different from the regular coating.
Tks