Beautiful refinishing! You open a great and sensitive discussion. Vintage collectors of anything tend to be
purists, and the more original, the better. I am not sure that refinishing a case is any more sacrilegious than refinishing a dial to many of us. No one might know if a refinished case was .1mm off, but it would bother me nonetheless to know that my case was refinished. Also, it might make a watch seem disingenuous to have a well aged dial with patina and a new looking case. One needs to consider the entire aesthetic of the watch. Now, if a piece had a stunning minty dial and a beat up case, a good refinishing might make lots of sense. But, there are not many watches out there that fit this mold.
Just my 2 cents!
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