This is a wonderful collectible, and your article brings up a lot of interesting issues.
Sometimes, one confronts the issue that "honesty" in a watch abuts aesthetics. In other words, if a watch has had a hard, but one-owner, untouched life, it can be honest, but not appealing.
The second issue that comes to mind is whether one is making a shrine to someone else's history, or creating a new one with ownership. And of course, everyone is entitled with objects they purchase and process to do what they wish with them.
In this case, someone else's personal history is being preserved, and you are the custodian, and that's great. And, being a collector of Speedmasters, I'm certain you have others that you are creating your own history with. But my point is, if I were hunting for one prime Speedy for my collection, and was not interested in obtaining others, I would opt for one that I would wear, that would be a marker for events in my life, that I would make "honest," and that someone else down the road would eventually appreciate too.
