You bought the watch from a private party. Let us say it is 30 years old.
It looks good for a watch that old. You list it as never been polished because you BELIEVE it is so.
No big deal?
I would be interested to read what you think.
Now buyers seeing these posts so often grow to expect to find vintage watches that have "never been polished". So much so that they will e-mail any prospective seller and ask "has the watch been polished" ?
The watches were polished before they left the factory.
One could set up a very good polishing shop and refinish cases to very close to factory look...
and it's a serious case of the blind leading the blind....and the biggest game of chinese whispers...
new guys read it on a forum and think that's what its about, what do you expect with so many ('pocket guru's' regurgitating what they read yesterday as gospel) ...without realizing just how many are just re-polished to look a bit like unpolished ...let alone this new fad for adding metal and repolishing that allows three times a week an unpolished watch sale LOL....
when even Geneva are laser welding repairs in, it just makes it comical .......
a true unpolished case can take years to find and will command a serious premium and in reality is an unacheivable goal for most...not to mention really only for those that dont want to wear it ....if the hobby is about that then its going to be about a very small pool of watches LOL.