Hi Community:

I noticed that my above Connie is tarnished-getting discolored. Is his normal? I did a quick search and i was made to understand 14K gets tarnished.Opinion please? Thanks

 

My guess is you forgot what gold watches look like after a few years in the deep tropics of the Philippines?

 

It's normal and nothing to worry about. Although there is some surface tarnishing, the material itself will not pit like base-metal watches or early steel cases.

 

Tarnish is absolutely normal, and easily removed with a few rubs from a silver cloth.

 

To be more specific, a rouge cloth. There is another definition of "silver cloth" that means "wrap your silver in this and it won't tarnish so much."

Tom

 

14k is only 58.5% gold. The other components of the alloy eg copper, silver etc can tarnish as they react with the atmosphere. 9K gold is worse still. 18k doesn’t seem to suffer this as much. It’s only a very thin oxide layer which is slow to form and can be removed easily.

 

Oooh, love me a bit of tarnished gold

I had a gold capped Seamaster once which had the most beautiful tarnish...

 

It will only get worse. Sell it - to me, for instance

 

2767 bumper? Lovely patina it’s true.

 

Could be Fred. Sierra Madre and Cordillera mountain ranges come to mind (lol).

 

Patina on gold is beautiful. I wouldn’t touch it.

 

one of our blushing beauties from the deep tropics

 

I concur

never polish this kind of patina away as it takes many years to form...

 

A few days ago, a guy showed me how to make it in 3 days ( have not tried it yet).