The recent discovery of PSR B1718-19 in NGC 6342, the first globular-cluster pulsar with a high magnetic field and the third eclipsing pulsar (Lyne et al. 1993) may lead to an unambiguous test of pulsar recycling and field decay. The reason for this is that one expects to find rather different companion masses depending on whether the binary was formed via capture of a companion by an old neutron star or whether the neutron star was born in the binary via accretion-induced collapse of a white dwarf. The mass difference leads to almost 2 mag difference in the expected I-magnitude of the companion, which means that one can easily distinguish between the two cases using CCD observations