The following guide is presented to help you determine the overall qualtity of a partickular timepiece. Bear in mind that this is a guide only, thus a numerical range is given for each category. A mint watch that shows no wear but has a very light crease, would be dropped down to excellent due to this minor blemish. The fact remainds that the overall condition is still mint. The reverse of this, of course, would be a watch that is graded excellent even though the case shows very little ware. It may show a brassy look, thus the excellent rating.