Thinking of recutting my Sub?

[Ascari_2]

Hi all,

I purchased my 16800 several years ago and love this watch tremendously. It runs extremely accurately, feels as solid as any new watch on the wrist, and just feels right. Needless to say, unless I fall on some hard times I have no intention of letting this one go and the delta in $ amount that a recut would bring to this watch is not an issue.

Then why consider a recut if all feels so good? Well, I enjoy wearing watches and (this might sound a bit silly) but I enjoy making memories with them. My kids affectionately call my BB58 the vacation Tudor because it's come with me on most vacations that we've taken, and I have a few others that have similar back stories. Considering this, while I love the watch for its vintage character and feel, I feel like the case is showing the life with its previous owner and not its life with me. So while I don't intend to bang the watch up just for sake of creating memories, if and when my son receives this piece from me, those signs of wear will be from his dad rather than from someone we never knew.

With that in mind, I am curious what people's thought are. Definitely not asking anyone to decide for me, but more wanting to know if I am the only one with these kinds of crazy thoughts. Ideally, I'd love for this watch to have all the new lines of a NOS piece with chunky chamfers that it likely had back when it was new. This way I could start building my own memories with it.