Treating scratches on an AW6

[BS1981]

Just got my new Apple Watch and already have a decent sized scratch on the face of it!

Is there any treatment I can use on it that will make the scratch less obvious?

Thanks.

 

[theSeb]

A glass polish, like Carpro Ceriglass and a small glass polishing pad, like Lake Country glass cutting pad are your best bet, but I have never tried this on "gorilla" type glass - only on automotive glass.

Bear in mind that doing this by hand will require a LOT of patience and, if you can "feel" the scratch when running your finger or nail gently over the screen, then the scratch is too deep and you won't be able to achieve much.

 

[bricktop_at]

Just curious now… wouldn’t that also get rid of the oleophobic coating?

 

[Apple_Robert]

The aluminum model scratches easily. Put a screen protector on it so you don't get more.

 

[BS1981]

I think I might just forget about it as I don’t want to damage further… I made sure I got AppleCare+ so that gives me some peace of mind if there’s further damage.

 

[theSeb]

Just curious now… wouldn’t that also get rid of the oleophobic coating?

Fair point. It very well could.

 

[perezr10]

A glass polish, like Carpro Ceriglass and a small glass polishing pad, like Lake Country glass cutting pad are your best bet, but I have never tried this on "gorilla" type glass - only on automotive glass.

Bear in mind that doing this by hand will require a LOT of patience and, if you can "feel" the scratch when running your finger or nail gently over the screen, then the scratch is too deep and you won't be able to achieve much.

I don’t think that is going to do anything. I tried using fine sandpaper discs on my power drill to remove scratches on an aluminum Series 2 and it did absolutely nothing. I don’t think even medium grit sandpaper would work let alone glass polishing compound on a pad.

I bought a water damaged old watch just to experiment on what it would take to remove scratches. I gave up. I only buy stainless steel watches now.

 

[louiecucciolo]

I have owned AW series 0, series 2, and series 3 and now the series 6, all sports models.. The AW series 6 has so many scratches after having for less than a year. No sport model before series 6 had scratched so easily and I put many of my AW before through hell. I am beyond disappointed that the AW series 6 scratches so easily. ;(

 

[BS1981]

I have owned AW series 0, series 2, and series 3 and now the series 6, all sports models.. The AW series 6 has so many scratches after having for less than a year. No sport model before series 6 had scratched so easily and I put many of my AW before through hell. I am beyond disappointed that the AW series 6 scratches so easily. ;(

I only have mine two weeks and it has a few scratches already… that saying I absolutely love it, this is my first time owning a watch never mind an Apple Watch and I’m in mid-40’s!

Thankfully I have AppleCare+ on it so if anything worse happens to it it will be replaced.