The issue is not that the Panerai Ti doesn't coat well. >>

The actual coating was fine.

It was my experience that after we coated a Ti Submersible for a customer some years ago we had to have a couple of parts re-coated.

The chemical used by the vendor at that time to strip the old coating had the effect of actually etching away some of the Titanium and altering the dimensions of the case parts. We could not reassemble the watch because the parts no longer fitted together properly.

I had to buy a replacement watch for the customer out of my pocket as the vendor is not liable for this sort of FUBAR. Very expensive lesson and one that I'll not have to learn again.

We have coated and stripped other Ti watch parts including Seiko and Kobold models with no problems.

It is my uneducated guess that perhaps Panerai's Titanium is somehow different from the Ti used by other manufacturers.



Jack Alexyon
www.industrialwatchworks.com