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It is funny how fashion changes with regard to services. My father has boxes of old Rolex hands and dials from his time working there. Most are the old Radium hands with the patina that everyone loves today, but back then most wanted to ‘upgrade’ the old, brown, dirty hands to shiny new tritium ones.
Luckily for us, my dad kept all these. As good watchmakers know, you never throw anything out...we now often refit these during watch restorations.
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Generally dials, hands and cases don’t wear out unless they’re not looked after. Moisture ingress is the main culprit for poor condition dials and desk diving scratches cases. But I agree about parts that actually wear like (some) movement components, though others only wear as a result of the watch not being serviced. It’s perfectly possible to wear your watches regularly and not damage them ;)
I wear all my watches, I thought most people do :)