It is all about the offered price and obviously your intended use, keeping away from water because doubt it will pass the pressure test. I am sure it can be loved just as much...
I think in this "case" (no pun intended), that is what it would come down to. If the asking price is as good as others in better condition, then passing was the thing to do..
That's a lot of corrosion and serious pitting. I would have passed. The dial is nice. Any chance of putting that dial in a nice case?
Whaou.. Finding à 35 MM lomgines step case from that era is almost as difficult as finding the watch itself... The quest continue...
Ouch ....I'm guessing this was many thousand and in discussing case work with OF friends.....Finding folks to do it and then paying for it is very daunting. I'd guess there is a grand or more worth of work here. You'd need to be confident of the outcome and upside value.
I could afford paying a premium on a hot watch, I was even thinking about laser welding or something like that but when.the starting price is already so high it becomes difficult to find the motivation to enter such restoration... At half the price I would have think about it...
Just a question, is there numbers or something linking the case and the movement? I know that mid-case and caseback are linked by numbers stamped on both but what about the the movement?
Yes, Longines will know whether the movement was sold originally in the case, based on the two numbers.
What do you think? If it is relumed it is very well done. And generally relumed dial doesn't aged like this
