Tissot T-Touch Expert reviews, experience, advice

[viper_]

Just bought the Tissot T Touch Expert Titanium yesterday! I absolutely love it! As for the red backlight, I find it is very crisp and have no problem at all reading it.

+1 for the red light, absolutely love it. I bought my touch expert 3 weeks back and have been wearing it 24/7 without any issues, except one which i'll come to later. On the positive side, the watch looks and feels beautiful... everything about the watch is simply awesome. Let me know if you want to know about anything in particular. The only gripe I have with it, and it's a major one too, is that the watches scratches like crazy!!! I got my first scratch on the bracelet within the first 12 hrs and then it was the clasp. Three weeks down and I now have a couple on the bezel and several more on the bracelet. The watch isn't that cheap as far as price goes, and I have owned two titanium watches before this, but this one scratches so easily that it's insane! That said, I absolutely love the watch, just hope it didn't scratch so easily. Hope it helps.

[trueman]

+1 for the red light, absolutely love it. I bought my touch expert 3 weeks back and have been wearing it 24/7 without any issues, except one which i'll come to later. On the positive side, the watch looks and feels beautiful... everything about the watch is simply awesome. Let me know if you want to know about anything in particular. The only gripe I have with it, and it's a major one too, is that the watches scratches like crazy!!! I got my first scratch on the bracelet within the first 12 hrs and then it was the clasp. Three weeks down and I now have a couple on the bezel and several more on the bracelet. The watch isn't that cheap as far as price goes, and I have owned two titanium watches before this, but this one scratches so easily that it's insane! That said, I absolutely love the watch, just hope it didn't scratch so easily. Hope it helps.

I've only had my watch for a few days now and have been fortunate enough to be scratch-free. I've been extra careful with it, and I don't sleep with it on. However, if I do end up getting some scratches, is it possible to get them buffed out or something? In Viper's case, this might be useful... Just wondering, if there is some sort of solution...?

[trueman]

I know this sounds like a stupid question, but yeah: How exactly do you open the diver's extension on the Tissot T Touch Expert. I know it is probably something so simple, but I haven't figured it out, and it doesn't mention anything about it in the manual. Thanks in advance!

[viper_]

You won't believe it but I've been going nuts looking at the scratches... to the extent that I had stopped wearing the watch 24/7!! As far as I knew, only SS could be buffed/polished but with Ti there is nothing that one could do. And this one does scratch very easily... none of my other Ti watches did as easily and even my Canon Powershot has a Ti body and it doesn't have a single scratch after 2yrs of use.

Don't know why but I went searching online to check if there was anything I could do to get rid of the scratches, albeit with little or absolutely no hope to find a solution. But then the unimaginable happened!!!

I read a post that all you need to do to get rid of the scratches on a Titanium watch is to get hold of an ink eraser and start rubbing it on the scratch in the direction the titanium appears to be brushed (usually vertical, as in the case of the Touch Expert). Felt a little stupid but ran straight to buy one and thought what the heck!! As incredible as it sounds, the scratches just started vanishing in front of my eyes. Can't tell you guys how jubilant I felt at that moment. Kept rubbing away happily and after 2hrs of hard work my watch was as good as new again!!

Can't remember exactly but what happens when the watch appears to be scratched is that it's not really the metal but the oxidation layer on the metal that is cut and with the eraser you kind of remove the entire oxidation layer and the watch quickly re-oxidizes and the scratch literally disappears. Or something to that effect... hope it makes sense.

Loving the watch again and is back to being 24/7 !!

[viper_]

I know this sounds like a stupid question, but yeah: How exactly do you open the diver's extension on the Tissot T Touch Expert. I know it is probably something so simple, but I haven't figured it out, and it doesn't mention anything about it in the manual. Thanks in advance!

Simple... just put your thumb below the diver's extension and give it the slightest nudge and it'll open. Hope it helps!

Cheers.

[trueman]

Simple... just put your thumb below the diver's extension and give it the slightest nudge and it'll open. Hope it helps!

Cheers.

Thanks a lot! I got it to work. I knew it was something simple. Just couldn't figure it out.

[trueman]

I read a post that all you need to do to get rid of the scratches on a Titanium watch is to get hold of an ink eraser and start rubbing it on the scratch in the direction the titanium appears to be brushed (usually vertical, as in the case of the Touch Expert). Felt a little stupid but ran straight to buy one and thought what the heck!! As incredible as it sounds, the scratches just started vanishing in front of my eyes. Can't tell you guys how jubilant I felt at that moment. Kept rubbing away happily and after 2hrs of hard work my watch was as good as new again!!

Can't remember exactly but what happens when the watch appears to be scratched is that it's not really the metal but the oxidation layer on the metal that is cut and with the eraser you kind of remove the entire oxidation layer and the watch quickly re-oxidizes and the scratch literally disappears. Or something to that effect... hope it makes sense.

Loving the watch again and is back to being 24/7 !!

All I can say is WOW. That is amazing! I'll definitely keep that in mind in case I have any trouble in the future with scratches. About the oxidatation layer, I've also read that about Titanium. So all you used was one of those blue erasers made for erasing pen?

[viper_]

So all you used was one of those blue erasers made for erasing pen?

The posts about the scratch removal mentioned the blue erasers, so that's the one I bought but the shop had another very cheap ink eraser ($0.06 only!), so I bought that as well.

After a couple of rubs with the blue eraser I got a little scared and felt it was actually scratching the titanium even more as the eraser was very hard, like its supposed to be. The other eraser, though a pen eraser was way softer and when I gave it a try, everything worked out just fine. Maybe the blue one would've worked it's magic as well and that was the one used by all the other guys who had mentioned the scratch removal technique, but I'm just a tad bit wary to go back to it and have this other option working perfectly fine for me.

Attaching a pic of the 'tools' -




Cheers.

[crazyotterhound]

I have some scratches on the clasp of my Nascar T-Touch which appeared out of nowhere...hopefully this will do the trick. Thanks for sharing the tip

The posts about the scratch removal mentioned the blue erasers, so that's the one I bought but the shop had another very cheap ink eraser ($0.06 only!), so I bought that as well.

After a couple of rubs with the blue eraser I got a little scared and felt it was actually scratching the titanium even more as the eraser was very hard, like its supposed to be. The other eraser, though a pen eraser was way softer and when I gave it a try, everything worked out just fine. Maybe the blue one would've worked it's magic as well and that was the one used by all the other guys who had mentioned the scratch removal technique, but I'm just a tad bit wary to go back to it and have this other option working perfectly fine for me.

Attaching a pic of the 'tools' -




Cheers.

[emmanuelgoldstein]

Titanium watch bands are the most durable but tend to scratch easier then stainless steel unless they are surface treated to make them scratch resistant. However the durability and scratch resistance of titanium depends on the grade of titanium used.

To avoid your titanium watch from scratching or to get rid of scratches you can obtain a surface treatment. A cheaper alternative is to simply use fine grit sandpaper 1600 grit or China rubber. Because Titanium is so soft you can ‘polish’ away the scratches leaving the surrounding area the same color and looking brand new.

Remember though this is not a block of wood you are sanding but a piece of jewelry. Some people tend to get carried away and start to buff too hard with the sandpaper. Also remember to always follow the grain. I've heard you can use a fibreglass pen, but I myself have never tried it.