Suunto Race 2 General Discussion

[Steven Hambleton]

@tas2581 You’re really selling the watch!

[tas2581]

This post is deleted!

[Brad_Olwin]

@tas2581 Sorry the forum does not allow advertising/ selling, I deleted the posts.

[tas2581]

Worst ever upgrade continues with bad luck and visible scratches on blackened titanium bezel. After couple days of carefull use, bullet proof titanium bezel now has 3 white scratches.
No drops, no impacts, nothing to justify these super-brilliant and higly-visible white scratches over textured and intense black.
Googled, and cant find any solution for cold patination of titanium; while steel and aluminium, at least, can be blackened with simple gun blue cold patination.
I hope someone from this forum or forum moderators can help with an magic recipe for titanium cold blackening or an miracleous solution to remove black titanium patination without abrasives?
Any suggestions?
Considering remove all black patination with scotch-brite abrasives, but the plastic body is subject of an potential disaster of polishing process and end of this 600EUR investment in the plastics recycle container after only 3 days of use.
Sapphire scratch proof glass with easily scratchĺable blackened titanium bezel just duo of elements for marketing. 2 years of continued work over all improvements of Race1, results in marketing improvements only.
BIG thank you for this amazing Race2 titanium deal

[Squirrel]

@tas2581 Post some pictures, preferably macro shots. 🧐

[Hari Seldon]

@tas2581 It’s no surprise that titanium is prone to scratches, and I imagine you must have bumped it against something hard without realizing it. It also depends on how the PVD treatment was performed. Without it for sure may happens.

[OutdoorMan]

@tas2581 my Race 2 is also scratched. I managed to scratch it outside somewhere on a rock. But I don’t mind, it’s a tool and it is always going to get scratched sooner or later, you will get used to it.

[Tieutieu]

Does a Suunto without any little scratch has lived enough adventures !? You have 30’ minutes to write your thoughts !

(Joke appart : both my SV1 and SRs have scratches on bezels, but not a single one on screen. And considering all they have suffered, those are very little scratches)

[Tami999]

I had quite big white scratch next to Suunto (near baro sensor). I polished it with my thumb like 5 minutes or more, and scratch is like 95% less visible, i can barely see it. Titanium version.

[Josaiplu]

@Tami999 you have diamond thumbs !