View single post by stew77
 Posted: Sat May 14th, 2011 06:18 pm
PM Quote Reply Full Topic
stew77



Joined: Thu Mar 26th, 2009
Location: Colorado USA
Posts: 10252
Status: 
Offline
 Congrats on that very cool and very rare Silver Surfer aafanatic!!! thumbsup.gif

Regarding the crystal...not all Sea Anglers have the mineral crystal...Martin offered sapphire crystals as on option on certain Sea Anglers (orangia, lume dial, and silver surfer versions had sapphire as an option if I recall correctly...there may be others).

This has been mentioned by others before (I think it was Paxman here at 3T), but some use the water drop test to determine if it is a sapphire or mineral crystal.  If the water forms drops and beads-up, you probably have sapphire.  If the water spreads out, you probably have mineral crystal.  I would suggest you start with a clean crystal if you try it since contaminants on the surface could affect surface tension, but many say that this works.