What time is it? Watches and horology

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freddo in reply to @ejay2.0

Hey, no judgment, man. But you can only refinish a case a couple of times as often quite a lot of metal is removed.

the rule of common sense is only do what is necessary for the piece to function as you want it to.

So the point of my comment to @bobble was that a service carried out by Rolex or Omega will, as a matter of course, include a case refinish whether the watch requires it or not. This is for exactly the reason you state, as well as because customers want to feel like they have a “new” watch again.

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Heldring in reply to @freddo

AFAIK If you ask Rolex to keep the watch optically intact and not to replace dials / hands or do any polishing, they won't. With AP is different, they will replace hands etc. and will only give you back the original parts if you specifically ask them to!

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mattyc in reply to @Heldring

That’s what I’d been told when I send my dad’s DJ back for quotes...
I was also given the original box and papers for christmas... receipt dates it as 1973

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