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!
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
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!