Dial and insert are very nice, but case has been refinished / recut: if you check there is very little distance between lugs and pinholes.
Dial and insert are very nice, but case has been refinished / recut: if you check there is very little distance between lugs and pinholes.
Thank you for the critique! That’s what this forum is all about.
This watch comes from the original owner and was professionally inspected prior to purchase.
Are you sure?
Yes, the point is that was also professionally refinished prior the sale.
It's impossible to say by pictures if steel was added and recut, or just refinished, the point is that the watch is polished.
If it was sold (and paid) as "polished in the past" (or as "lightly polished in the past" as dealers use to say) it's not a problem.
Otherwise, as you probably know, there is a big difference in price and value between polished and unpolished watches.
I don't understand the point of this post. Nobody claimed (or would claim) that this is an unpolished case. Are you going to make a comment on every thread saying the watch has been polished? This is taking the "unpolished fetish" to an unprecedented extreme. However, if the watch was "professionally refinished", it was obviously quite a long time ago.
I don't understand the point of this post. Nobody claimed (or would claim) that this is an unpolished case. Are you going to make a comment on every thread saying the watch has been polished? This is taking the "unpolished fetish" to an unprecedented extreme. The case obviously doesn't have its exact original form. However, if the watch was "professionally refinished", it was obviously quite a long time ago, not "prior to sale".
Sometimes perhaps the old adage “If you have not got anything nice to say, its best to say nothing at all” applies. It a great piece from a very reputable source.
Yes, 100% sure.
If you check the distance between bevels and pinholes is very little: first sign of polishing.
Then if you check see the shape of bevels is sharp (second sign): in unpolished watches is generally more rounded (unless it's a nos case, but then you will have a bigger distance between pinholes and bevels).
