Chrome plate chipping on MTG

[lonewolf9]

Hi, guys. I've had my MTG-900 less than a year, but the chrome bit on the case of the watch has started to chip away. I banged it against the wall one day, and ever since more chrome has chipped off. It now shows the plastic underneath. I'll try to post some pics later today. This normal? Any ideas what I can do?

Thanks.

[Mike K]

Based upon my search for a used MTG-900 on Ebay (AFTER I'd bought a new one), it looks like a pretty common problem. I mentioned it in this thread a week or so ago. I've seen them with missing chrome on the light button, as well as the sort-of matching chrome section above 12 o'clock on the bezel.

The solutions I've got aren't very good:

1) stop wearing it so it doesn't chip in the first place. (Well, it's working for me now!)
2) "help" the chrome continue to fall off so that it will eventually expose all the unplated resin and then take the band off and dye the watch body gray or maybe black.
3) I suppose you could TRY to send it back to Casio and complain, but I'm not sure how much good that would do.

[lonewolf9]

Thanks, Mike. I was unable to find anybody else w/ this problem until you linked your thread. Because of this, it has turned into my beater watch even though I never intended it to be. Still love the watch. It just has this annoying quality issue.

[Mike K]

To be honest, a sample size of "one" plus some anecdotal hearsay evidence isn't very scientific! (I HAVE seen pictures of two or three others on Ebay with the same problem in the past, though -- and just now went looking for some more but came up empty...for now.)

Hopefully (?) some other people will chime in here with the same problem, and hopefully they'll be the same sort of "strap it on and forget about it" G-Shock wearer I tend to be! If I could take some good pictures of my 11 year old DW-5600, I'm sure that the nicks and scrapes would makes some of the collectors here wince.

I'm with you, though -- I think it's a "quality issue" and it's one that made me leery of buying a GW-2310 for the same reason until I discovered that the "chrome" on that one is actually polished metal, not chrome plated plastic. Sometimes I wish I'd never bought that MTG-900, but then I wouldn't have discovered this forum, and wouldn't have NINE G's in my collection! I could have gone straight from "beater" to "favorite atomic solar" and been done with it!

[Bluntside]

My MTG930 has the same issue, the "chrome" is completely missing from the piece at the top (above the 12'o clock position) and like 50% is missing from the G-button. It's sad because they now look like sh*t, so I cant wear it anymore in public. :(