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Today I bought a Chrono Avenger M1 on sale at my AD (yay!). A nice buddy for my CSO

Anyway, it had some smudges on it so I gave it a wash, which brings us to my tip:
Being an old school wet shaver I have a few shaving brushes lying around. I use the smallest one to clean my watches. Just pour some water in the sink, wet the brush and lather ut some soap. The brush is soft enough not to do any harm to polished finish but stiff enough to get in the nooks and crannies. It works really well!

And since you all have such manly watches, maybe you could give shaving like a man a shot too?
(or maybe you all already do...)

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"Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped!"
- Groucho Marx

Great idea. I have used an extra soft toothbrush as well.
BTW, I just wet shaved my legs this morning!
Cheers,
Carl

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"Those who possess a sense of entitlement are seldom satisfied"

Hehe, you wet shaved your legs? And this counts as manly?

I thought I might elaborate a bit on my tip. The brushes I have are badger hair brushes which are generally quite and soft. There are many type of brushes available and some are quite coarse and stiff. If you decide to give this a shot, go to a store where you can give the brush a test on the hand. It doesn't need to be an expensive brush, it just needs the right feel.

And at the risk of swerving slightly off topic: old school shaving means using either a double-edge single blade razor like your grandpa or a straight razor like your great grandpa. I'm a straight razor guy myself. I highly reccomend you give learinng this a try if you already haven't.
If you need any tips for starting out, just ask carlhaluss

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"Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped!"
- Groucho Marx

Instead of "shaving like a man", I grew a huge beard "...like a man"!

I use a soft brush and soap mug as well, when I shave. Using the brush to clean
our watches is a great idea. But I refuse to use a straight razor when I shave
(which isn't often, I must admit, since I retired: too damn lazy!). No, I inherited
my great, great uncle's straight razor, which I used to manly shave with... But you have
to have the hands of a surgeon to do it properly (with a minimum of blood ).
I, unfortunately, have the touch of a butcher, and my face would sometimes look
like a badly cut lambchop. Enough of that nonsense! I now use a nice safe Gillette
Sensor. If that makes me less of a man...so be it.

Steve

That was probably just a little bit too much information.

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I get all my shaving stuff from here

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Hercules

Seems we have a few wet shavers on the forum, I am myself as well, though now I have a beard it is only the neck and cheeks that get the going over! I have a well used badger that I do not use anymore so will give it a go! For those in the know, Merkur HD, C&E Edwin jagger and Proraso is my daily shave gear!

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All the best.
Ian

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Taffytoon, that's a really bad advice. Toothpaste is (mildly) abrasive and should definitely not be near the watch while cleaning it.

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Absolutely, 1,000% right.

PLEASE don't use toothpaste to clean watches, it's too harsh, and unnecessary.

I have to second that. I tried using toothpaste on my old rollie sub acrylic crystal and that did not work well at all. As for cleaning a watch all you need is something that will dissolve fat and smudges reasonably well so ordinary soap will do just fine.

BTW, i'ts good to hear that there are other wet shaving old schoolers here.

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"Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped!"
- Groucho Marx

Toothpaste on watches is definitely not the way to go, but if you really want an old school feel to your shaving experience try toothpaste instead of shaving powder.

Sorry guys

I HAVE BEEN DOING IT FOR YEARS

Never done mine any harm

Please ignore my advise

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"It's not how it's written it's how it's read"

Ouch!

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