Totally valid opinion, as well. Thanks for sharing.
I think it’s just a different strokes thing, and how you wish to value/see a “tool watch”. One of my favorite posts on this forum was of a father’s gmt. (
https://www.rolexforums.com/showthread.php?t=609890) He would garden with it everyday, I believe. The thing was beaten 5 ways to Sunday, and when it was cleaned, you could really see how this person’s life physically changed the watch. In my eyes, that’s just beautiful.
If you take the monetary component out, which I completely understand is difficult, a watch is just a thing. And when we have children or family, it probably has its second best function and that’s being a memory or momento. I think about this a lot and how if I were to inherent a watch, would I rather have it like new and in store bought condition, or lived in/dinged up and full of memories of a loved one.
When I started collecting I would’ve said like new. Now, I’m more in the dinged up camp.