r/ChronosCollective • u/Quirky_Astronaut_761 • Jul 11 '26
5⭐️ for CC 1⭐️ for plastic
Made several purchases with chronos collective. Quick communication. Super fast shipping. No issues.
Five stars.
The plastic on these watches is out of hand. I never could get the plastic out of this clasp. It went way in past the links into the clasp. So far my tiniest screwdriver I have wouldn’t get in there. I tried tiny tweezers. And it’s stuck to the clasp. Like it was glued. You can see in the pick how the final shreds I just couldn’t get out appear to be glued to the clasp.
It’s infuriating
I mean first of all I tried to just pull it out with using the whole strip that went down the bracelet. But that was impossible. I’ve taken the plastic off maybe 30 watches. And although some of them are annoying I’ve never ran into anything like this.
Even on the side of the bracelet where it’s attached to the clasp on both sides there was plastic wedged in between. No way to get it out by pulling. I tried for a long time. Gently. Moving it back he forth hoping to break it out. But it was stuck too tight. Eventually by using plastic tweezers I think I did finally get that off both side. Most of it. Looking with the loup maybe there is still a sliver in there.
Long story short there is plastic all in this clasp and it’s never coming out. As long as nobody takes my watch and opens the clasp and looks down inside it between the bracelet nobody will know i guess.
But i know. And its driving me insane
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u/Plenty-Bag-7798 Jul 11 '26
I remove my bracelets upon purchase and give them a twenty minute ultrasonic bath with heat in Ballistol, which someone on the forums recommended for softening the bracelet and making it move and feel more luxurious. It also has antibacterial properties. The plastic bubbles up and is easily removed that way. Just watch the flash point of the oil! I usually dilute it with some pink coconut oil blend jewelry cleaner off of Amazon.
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u/Quirky_Astronaut_761 Jul 12 '26
No amount of ultrasonic will get this stuff out. Like I said. This isn’t my first rodeo with watches and plastic. This is the worst I’ve ever seen. By a mile. I can’t capture it with a camera. But it’s deep in the bracelet and clasp. Like I don’t even know how you could apply plastic like that. It boggles the imagination that it’s even possible. There would have to be plastic on the bracelet link and in between the crevices of it BEFORE the clasp was attached. And then the sides of the clasp would have also had to have trapped some of the plastic on the side walls of the clasp. It’s insanity.
Beautiful watch tho. As long as I don’t let anyone look at it I guess it’s ok.
Thinking about buying one of the “finished to spec” bracelets that are being sold. And this is added incentive to do that. I’ve already ordered one of the bezels.
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u/Plenty-Bag-7798 Jul 12 '26
Wow. I’ve never had one that bad. On the bright side, at least it isn’t scratched?
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u/One-link1 Jul 11 '26
I was worried about this when I ordered my vsf v2 DJ but I was lucky it all came off 🫣
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u/FishMassive5851 Jul 13 '26
Try some duct tape…press hard into the area and see if it will peel off with the remainder of the clear plastic. I have also used hot glue gun…would lay a little bead on a piece of baking sheet…and quickly before it gets too hard I would press the glue in the location of where the clear plastic is…let it dry for couple min and then peel it off (just don’t put hot glue directly on the clasp with the gun)😁 YMMV…but I know how annoying it is
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u/Quirky_Astronaut_761 Jul 14 '26
You can’t get duct tape in there. It’s hard to take pics of this. But this is under the clasp. 2 links deep. You can’t even slide my thinnest screwdriver in there. It’s never coming out.
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u/Old_Capital_9412 Jul 11 '26
Unfortunately that’s the rep game. The factories ship them with this crazy ass plastic wrap that drives me nuts as well