Unless your seller is a watchmaker or very adept at changing crowns you wouldn’t want him carrying out a quick crown change as you risk damage to the watch.
Unless your seller is a watchmaker or very adept at changing crowns you wouldn’t want him carrying out a quick crown change as you risk damage to the watch.
It sounds to me like you still have a lot of doubts and questions and maybe you need to study and learn more before buying. The members have given you an extraordinary amount of free information and feedback but they can’t buy the watch for you.
This is a common model and you can buy it anywhere The examples you are finding are not unique or special or especially cheap.
Take your time and wait until you know enough to be comfortable with a decision.
Looks like that has had a significant polish job. They removed quite a bit of material from that 7 oclock lug, probably to fix up some sort if ding? They at least did a reasonable job of keeping the facets though.
I suspect this means someone did a pretty big polish job on this. While 'poor' polishing is what we usually complain about (because it ruins facets/angles), proper use of jigs and sanding blocks/etc, can remove material without losing facets, and you get something like this.
Thanks for your reply! The watch is still beautiful and sharp, which is great, but I feel a bit confused about not noticing this before.
In terms of value, which is worse, having a well-polished watch like this one but with asymmetrical lugs, or one with polished non-sharp lugs?
IMO, the different lug sizes is way less noticable and would greatly remove my enjoyment/love of it way less than one that lost its sharp lugs particularly on this model.
