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Originally Posted by dhknola
Re-cut chamfers are vastly becoming the new 'polished lugs' in a detrimental sense; These re-cut watches will do very poorly on the vintage market in 5-10 years as people will clamor for 'honest watches'.
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Sorry interesting points but much different than my perspective. I prefer the use of the term "refinished" to both "polishing" and "recut".
Watchmakers have been refinishing cases for many decades now - the only difference between then and now is modern technology which makes for a more professionally refinished case when compared to the old technology from decades ago.
If a vintage watch was refinished poorly in the past, I see no issues with having a case properly redone now that modern technology is much more readily available to correct an improperly refinished case from a previous service.