Hey, Lum-Techians...
I have a problem, and this goes way deeper than my personality disorder, so even my analyst is stumped... :wink:
Check out the image, below, of my formerly pristine V1, which has been sitting in its box, happily minding its own business. Last night I fitted the bracelet, and took it into my laboratory (cue maniacal cackle) to impress y'all with my excellent bracelet-fitting skills. When I went to shoot the bracelet under my infamous, retina-searing 300 watt, interrogation lamp, I noticed a weird flaw in my V1's crystal.
If you look at the image, you can see what appears to be a marring of the crystal between the 7-8 hour markers on the perimeter of the watch face.
It's definitely on the crystal, either on its surface or underside. I can't feel it when gently scraping across it with a fingernail -- almost a foolproof method, for me, when trying to detect whether I've scratched the surface of a highly polished plane. It's absolutely smooth, even under high magnification. I'm convinced I haven't scratched the surface of the AR.
What it looks like, instead, is that same sort of weirdness -- a crazy, puddle-like refraction of light -- that you see when you've improperly applied a screen protector to the surface of your cellphone's screen. It looks like there's a tiny air bubble between either the top surface of the crystal and its AR coating, or the underside of the crystal and its AR coating.
Chris or Bes, have you seen this before? Does anybody have any theories.
Thanks, guys, for checking it out.
I have a problem, and this goes way deeper than my personality disorder, so even my analyst is stumped... :wink:
Check out the image, below, of my formerly pristine V1, which has been sitting in its box, happily minding its own business. Last night I fitted the bracelet, and took it into my laboratory (cue maniacal cackle) to impress y'all with my excellent bracelet-fitting skills. When I went to shoot the bracelet under my infamous, retina-searing 300 watt, interrogation lamp, I noticed a weird flaw in my V1's crystal.
If you look at the image, you can see what appears to be a marring of the crystal between the 7-8 hour markers on the perimeter of the watch face.
It's definitely on the crystal, either on its surface or underside. I can't feel it when gently scraping across it with a fingernail -- almost a foolproof method, for me, when trying to detect whether I've scratched the surface of a highly polished plane. It's absolutely smooth, even under high magnification. I'm convinced I haven't scratched the surface of the AR.
What it looks like, instead, is that same sort of weirdness -- a crazy, puddle-like refraction of light -- that you see when you've improperly applied a screen protector to the surface of your cellphone's screen. It looks like there's a tiny air bubble between either the top surface of the crystal and its AR coating, or the underside of the crystal and its AR coating.
Chris or Bes, have you seen this before? Does anybody have any theories.
Thanks, guys, for checking it out.