Polishing, lessen value?

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Originally Posted by bondtoys

Well, you could see it that way - or - that after 20 years, the case is almost half worn down.
And most of the watches on the current market had 5 years of Service intervalls, so a lot of potential damage has happened much quicker.
904L seems to be softer and so the damages are deeper and the loss of material therefore will be higher.

And then there are people who let their watch be repolished every couple of years and those watches all end up then with spiderlegs as lugs.
Just have a look at recent listings of 1016 on Chrono 24 and have a look on the lugs ;)

Unpolished only for me

Each to there own but normal routine polish at normal service intervals only should not be any problems with any modern day Rolex watch produced from the late 1980s on. Below a picture of my own personal working tool watch late 1990s early 2000 16600 SD ,it was used and many times abused for many years underwater as a real working tool with well over 600 hours underwater. And has been serviced and polished by now 4 different RSC world wide. This working tool SD has seen more use than todays Subs- SD - DSSD watches will see in ten lifetimes. Yet now well over 20 years old still ticking and looking good today, case ring still got decades of use left.


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