Upgrade from "9 Baro Titanium" to "9 Peak"
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@becco981 don’t do that!! It’s a lesson every tech inclined climber learns the quickest - watch and climbing don’t do well together. Just attach it to your harness, ideally in some cloth pouch to protect from dust and chalk, and use an HR belt.
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@дима-мельниченко yes, of course I avoid climbing wearing the watch but it happened with the S9 Baro Ti that it crashed on the rocks without any damage, both on the titanium ring and on the sapphire glass.
The 9 Peak has been scratched by a light scrub on a plastic surface! -
@becco981 I looked up hardness of Titanium and it’s supposed to be a relatively soft metall. But it’s often improved by applying a coating. Was your previous watch a coated version or not?
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@дима-мельниченко the old 9 Baro Ti was black, I don’t know if it was a covering. Thanks for information about titanium, it makes sense. I’m just negatively surprised that at the first “incident” a 700€ watch got damaged.
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You can even damage a Rolex that’s much more expensive
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@becco981 black is not “natural” color of titanium, so our investigation has reached its end.
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@becco981 we had issues with some units having already scratches. Are you sure you scratched it so easily ?
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@dimitrios-kanellopoulos yes. Absolutely. Just rubbed on a plastic surface moving my arm while I was getting out of my bed. Nothing more.
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@becco981 I’d give it a try with support. This does not look normal to me, but others can say also.
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@dimitrios-kanellopoulos said in Upgrade from "9 Baro Titanium" to "9 Peak":
@becco981 I’d give it a try with support. This does not look normal to me, but others can say also.
HOHOHO, I hope you can get us an official answer, (because I’m buying a S9P now)
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@dimitrios-kanellopoulos I already asked to official support but no answer yet.
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@zhang965 you can see from here that a few units (but not uncountable) had such issues. Directly from the factory. Now to scratch this on something soft does not sound normal to me. That’s why I suspected it might have been already like this.
Let’s see
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@dimitrios-kanellopoulos said in Upgrade from "9 Baro Titanium" to "9 Peak":
@zhang965 you can see from here that a few units (but not uncountable) had such issues. Directly from the factory. Now to scratch this on something soft does not sound normal to me. That’s why I suspected it might have been already like this.
Let’s see
Oh, that’s a lovely explication, can I have a discount code to buy a S9P
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Here the answer from the Suunto customer care (via Twitter):
First of all, we feel very sorry to hear that your new Suunto 9 Peak is scratched. While titanium does scratch, of course, but unlikely possible to be made by plastic - we use Grade 5 titanium that is rather hard and to be scratched it needs an equally hard material. Not plastic. It needs to be hard stones, some types of tempered glass, gemstones, some types of steel, maybe some sandy debris (that is made of particles of hard stones - this is something that can happen in the house).
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@becco981 said in Upgrade from "9 Baro Titanium" to "9 Peak":
@chrisc92 I got 9 Peak Ti last Friday.
Today I accidentally scrubbed the nightstand (made of plastic) and the titanium ring got scratched a lot (see photo). I’m very disappointed
I can’t imagine what will happen when I’ll bring it with me doing climbing
Strange, upon buying the S9P Ti, I checked with the support regarding the a possible Ti black one, and they even answer this:
“As for the colour-material combination of the casing and bezel, currently there are no plans to create different ones: bear in mind that we intentionally chose to let the titanium ones uncoated - so that the natural beauty of grade 5 titanium can shine, and also to avoid possible scratches to the coating that would ruin the elegance of the watch.” -
I was considering the S9P but I think I’ll wait it out for a while. The size reduction from 50mm to 43mm is a negative from my point of view, and I like the chunkiness of my gold S9B
I’ve had it for around two years; I’m definitely not gentle with it but despite this I am struggling to see a single mark, scratch or ding anywhere on its bezel or screen
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@andré-faria chatting with support right now:
This is of course not 100% impossible - however, if you didn’t notice any scratches when you open the box and come to us immediately, but discovered it after using it for some time, it is rather unlikely issues directly from the factory.
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@miniforklift the watch is beautiful and elegant but I like the chunkiness of the S9BTi too. Love the size too. This new one has better GPS, better battery life.
I don’t have any advantage from the light sensor and the oxygen sensor (that is quite inaccurate, to me).
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@dimitrios-kanellopoulos are all Ti batches affected? i’m going to pull trigger on Ti, but quite worried after seeing the picture. There is no local dealer in my country, so purchase is only from amazon