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 Posted: Sat May 2nd, 2009 01:26 pm
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elemental

 

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bigrustypig wrote: The Sinn pictured is GRAB and KEEP!!! UTTtrading (Ted) is right. That steel is special. For that watch (and 1 or 2 other models from Sinn....my jurassic memory escapes me now), Sinn uses metallurgy from submarines and its steel virtually scratch-proof. Nice, understated watch.
 

sadly on U1 the only part of the watch that is of the tegmented (hardened like a submarine hull) steel is the bezel...most of their spendier chrono's are 100% tegmented.  supposedly it is like 1500 vickers (hardness scale).