Is this Pie Pan 168.006 worth it ?

lenndon · Thurs. 11:26am

I think an unpolished one with some dings and scratches would be worth more than one with a polishing job like the one you are showing. That is, of course, only if it is noticeable and disclosed by the seller. If not, I am pretty sure a lot of people will easily overlook it and pay the higher price for the one you show. Even though, once you see it, you cannot unsee it, I think your watch looks beautiful.
To answer your question: One with rounded edges from bad polishing, I would definitely rank below the polishing job you have!

Enjoy it and don't overthink it. With these vintage pieces, we have to accept that not everything can be perfect, especially if price matters.

CalgaryJim · Thurs. 12:15pm

lenndon
Enjoy it and don't overthink it. With these vintage pieces, we have to accept that not everything can be perfect, especially if price matters.

Couldn't agree more, well said!

Dan S · Thurs. 12:56pm

Takeo
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?

It depends ...

jffoo · Thurs. 8:36pm

Awesome purchase, what a great souvenir from Japan!

reggie_v · Sat. 1:01pm

ErichKeane
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.

Interestingly, I’m not so sure it’s matter of polishing as I’ve seen many examples of dog leg pie pans with slightly out of tolerance lugs. I owned one a while back where the lower left and top right lug were thinner than the opposite two width wise. Again I’ve seen posts on the forum that mimic the OP’s issue, the facet is higher. I’ve always just put it down to manufacturing tolerances on the 60s being more relaxed and the fact that the cases were hand finished.

That being said, we are talking about a 60+ year old here watch and all the things that could have happened to it over that time span. So you could be entirely right @ErichKeane 😂

Is this Pie Pan 168.006 worth it ?

lenndon

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jffoo

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