I see where your coming from DJ, and your point is a valid one.
Of course - we all ask advice and guidence off some of the more experienced collectors when we get the chance to either personally or through the forum, to guide our purchases and help us make our minds up on invidual purchases..... WHY? ...... Because we lack the knowledge ourselves or basically are frightened of taking our own judgement, especially when large sums of money is involved.
You can't always have advice on tap though - and sometimes we are presented with situations where we look at something, Have a 70% idea what it is and if we think the asking price is cheap and we are 'getting a bargain,' then we use our own judgement.
Armed with knowledge that people are finding ways to age dials, bezels, hands etc... could save people whose pockets are'nt as deep as some, from making that mistake in thinking they have the
'genuine - real deal' - where as in fact they only are getting the
'genuine' that has been artifically aged..