Opinions on refurbished or redialed?

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In full disclosure, my own opinion is strongly against re-painted/restored/refinished dials, with the singular exception of when an identical NOS OEM dial can be found to replace a dial completely beyond salvage, which in my experience is fairly uncommon.

Not once, but twice today, I had people (not here, in day-tp-day life) try to sell me Rolexes - one was fully re-dialed and re-handed because for some reason they sent the 1970s era Oyster to Rolex for service , and the other was a WG DJ that for one reason or another had been repainted at some point in its life.

What both confuses and annoys me is that when I explained my disinterest in them, for these reasons, they both wanted to defend that a: these were not modifications of the original watch, and b: somehow they wanted to convince me that these were improvements!

From a person literally expecting me to hand them thousands of dollars in cash: "I mean, it's not an investment."

Am I alone in my bewilderment at two so-called 'watch people', one professionally, trying to pass these things off as not only ok, but better?

Sorry if I sound ranty, but I am genuinely flummoxed by this, so I'd love to hear other folks' opinions on what such modification (updates, if you must) does in your eyes to the piece itself.