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I'm interested in buying a Superocean with a yellow dial. I am wondering, are the bracelets brushed or polished? From all the pictures it looks brushed but can't tell for sure. Also, are there other bracelets that fit and look good on the Superocean? Thanks for your help

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Breitling Superocean Steelfish Ref A17309
Breitling Wings Automatic Ref A10350
Breitling AOPA Navitimer Ref 806
Omega Speedmaster Ref 3510.50.00
U-Boat Classico 45 AS Ref 5565

super oceans are polished. only the top of the bezel is brushed. i dont believe any other bracelets will fit but the strap size is 20/18. they have diver straps, leather and croco straps. shark skin is also available but you dont see too many of them

I think the yellow faced SuperOcean was a brushed case and bracelet. The bracelet was the ProI with the dive extension. I assume you could put a polished Pro II bracelet on it, but I think it might look silly because it's polished. If you have your heart set on the yellow, you'll probably be looking at something second hand.

The newer SO's are polished case/polished bracelet, and the yellow dial was replaced by the coral dial.

The dive straps do look good with both, I think.

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Coral Dial SuperOcean
Black Dial Avenger Skyland
Arctica Dial Bentley G/T Racing

Coral Club Founding Father

Iwanted a yellow one but they stopped making the yellow SO 4 yrs ago, used is your only hope unless you see the light and get a coral one

seriously, current yellow dial nearest to it would be a seawolf but its £500 more and titanium and bigger.

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John

Current:- Navi World, Coral SO, Panerai 219, Sea Dweller, Suunto Core etc

CORAL CLUB FOUNDING FATHER

Thanks for your help. I found one that I am interested in. The bracelet has some scratches. Because it it brushed I guess I can't use the Cape Cod cloths to buff out the scratches. Is there any other way to get rid of the scratches?

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Breitling Superocean Steelfish Ref A17309
Breitling Wings Automatic Ref A10350
Breitling AOPA Navitimer Ref 806
Omega Speedmaster Ref 3510.50.00
U-Boat Classico 45 AS Ref 5565

I would suggest taking it to a jeweler to have them take a look...some places charge a small fee to make it good as new!

If you want to do it yourself you can use a green kitchen scouring pad (I think they are call Scotchbrite or soething in the States). Go reasonably gently and in teh direction of the brushing "grain" (obviously!) and you should get a finw result.

By way of example I once removed the scratches from the clasp of an old Seamaster I had in this way before I part-exchanged it in a jewellers. The jeweller studied the watch very closely and then asked me if I'd ever worn it! When I replied "everyday for the last 2 years" she was amazed!

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Driver8

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Yes, I'd absolutely recommend scotchbrite for buffing out scratches. A Cape Cod would be used for polishing and if you want to keep the brushed look - don't use a Cape Cod.

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Just noticed the amount of typo's in my last post! Think I was in a hurry!

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Driver8

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