Hey all! I received my SB SS 42 a week ago and still check here several times a day. Being with y'all for so long I couldn't just abandon all of you still waiting (hey! It's almost over!) and love seeing all of you getting charged and shipping notifications. I wanted to give you all a pleasant update on your new watch' durability regarding the DLC (the sapphire screen I never even worried about).
I've been putting in a stone patio, stone retaining wall, and a rock garden. So of course I've been shoveling gravel and sand, lugging tons of rocks and boulders, and all of the demanding jobs that goes with working on three large projects at once. I originally planned to NOT wear the watch while working of course, but decided if I started to take it off any time there was a chance of a scratch there would be no end. So I decided it was going to go on first thing in the morning and taken off at the end of the day. If it got dinged or scratched, it would have eventually anyway.
As you can imagine, I've scraped it over, across, around, and practically through rock, gravel, and sand. I've hit it on every damn thing I've been working on several times over. And not a scratch that I can detect. I honestly can't understand the posts where people are stating that they didn't do anything at all and now their SB is scratched. I have a hard time believing that now.
Just wanted to give you all some good news on your watch's hardiness for a change. I honestly can't see the slightest scratch after several tortuous days that the watch normally wouldn't be subjected to. I'm sure an obsessive type could put the watch under a special light, turn it this way and that, and complain that they see a mark or micro-scratch, but I can't decern any mark at all. And, if it did (or does) get scratched, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. Character and all that.
I'm so happy for ALL of you who are finally about to get your watches!
