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Unpolished Case Reference Gallery

  1. x3no Jul 25, 2018

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    Forgive me if there is already one, but can anyone point me to a Rolex image gallery that shows unpolished cases for as many references as possible? I feel this would be super helpful to those of us trying to find unpolished watches, or as close to unpolished as possible to compare with what we're trying to buy.

    If there is nothing like this, I'm happy for this to be the start. Post your unpolished case references so we can all save this thread.
     
  2. omegastar Jul 25, 2018

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  3. x3no Jul 25, 2018

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  4. x3no Jul 26, 2018

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    All credit for images due to their respective owners.
     
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  5. x3no Jul 26, 2018

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    568528-069682e46e2f4b92734acee4f8cd356e.jpg 568527-5a14d9a6d74af1fdecb0cb46e875165a.jpg 30uebtj.jpg

    All credit for images due to their respective owners.
     
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  6. eton97 Aug 16, 2018

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    5513 maxi mk1.

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  7. Togri v. 2.0 Wow! Custom title... cool Aug 18, 2018

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    Unpolished 16710

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  8. mr.kaplan Sep 5, 2018

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  9. kelev_ra Sep 6, 2018

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    Great and useful thread! Thank you!
     
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  10. leefowler Sep 7, 2018

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    Unpolished Radial Dial here! IMG_1728.JPG IMG_1730.JPG IMG_2632.jpg
     
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  11. Raf006 Sep 10, 2018

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    Hi,

    Very good topic. I'm just wondering since a few days if the fact that we see springbars on lugs hole means the case is overpolished (picture below) ?

    Thanx !
     
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  12. marco Sep 10, 2018

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    Not necessarily I have a polished DRSD that if I put short springbars in looks ok, the correct one's are almost flush with
    the case.
    Pic 1 has correct springbars.
    Pic 2 short.
     
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  13. Raf006 Sep 10, 2018

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    Well thanx I wasn't aware of that !
     
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  14. watch3s Sep 10, 2018

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    how the holes look is an indicator tho
     
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  15. Raf006 Sep 10, 2018

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    What do you mean ?
     
  16. watch3s Sep 10, 2018

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    take a look at the above unpolished case examples. those drilled lug holes do get affected when there has been a heavy polishing. i too recently purchased an older datejust so am curious as well to how an unpolished datejust looks but have handled and owned several unpolished examples sub, tudor sub and my gmt in the profile were all listed as unpolished.
     
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  17. kelev_ra Sep 11, 2018

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    Wow, that looks horrible :)
    You should delete it in this thread or people will start to believe that's how an unpolished should look :)