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Will be interesting to see the results indeed, should look great as usual! You're sending it in for a full service?

Thanks for the info.

Just a note for those who have an email into Rocco like I did and are waiting to hear back, he's been very busy and apologizes for being slow to reply and says he'll do it as...

err...are you OK ?

OK ;-) So the question remains then !

So you're saying you can spot a watch that's been refinished with a lapping maching as opposed to the original finish ?

Right, spotting a rebrushing I can understand, what had me perplexed is being able to determine whether the watch had been refinished with a lapping machine or not.

I recently saw in a sales thread that the seller said there was no evidence of rebrushing or refinishing with a lapping maching. Rebrushing I can understand, but is there a way to tell if a watch has...

Thanks for asking about Ti, good to know and thanks for these new Before/After pics, they really have some "feel good" quality to them!

No rush and TIA! Looks like you have nice watch activities regularly lined up for your week-ends ;-)

Another fantastic job! I thought big dents like that were a lost cause, guess the laser welding came in handy once again ;-)

@omegary - did you get a chance to ask about titanium lapping?

Wow, this is absolutely amazing!

Actually with the Z-33's similar shaped case I was wondering if lapping worked on titanium too as well as laser welding if the nicks are too deep? Not enough Z-33s...

Thank you for these wonderful before and after pictures, that Constellation from 1972 really looks like new now and the problem of course is that's it's going to be a concern to wear it for fear of...

This is really amazing! The watches do look as good as new. I heard that STS now have a lapping machine but apparently don't use yet as some people prefer to send back their watches to Omega Bienne...