Case restoration opinions

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Originally Posted by 996marty

To me looking at your watch I’d say it looks beautiful and just leave it as it is, obviously people see things differently and only you can decide if it’s going to annoy you every time you look at it

Totally this.

Your photo shows it, what, 3x its normal size? I see the dings and imperfections on my watches through a loupe that I wouldn’t see otherwise.

That being said, there was some sloppy redoing of the PCL on my YM bracelet at my last service at the RSC, and I made them redo it because it was too obvious.

If you look at your watch and the case finishing etc. bothers you, by all means get it redone.

As others have noted, because gold is a relatively soft metal, the hard lines do soften out from use over time. I have my mother in law’s gold President my father in law bought her in the late 1970s. She wore it daily for about 40 years. The hard angles and edges on the fluted bezel are worn, but it works for a gold watch that old that was actually worn. It’s not worn out, just worn.