Just think if this was a Rolex , Tropical, rare as hens teeth . But no just a good old honest Omega. Like the rest of us old ones showing our age and proud to do so.
Regards
Jeff

 

Beautiful! As you can tell, loves me some patina (sometimes more than some) and this is a looker!

 

Sorry but that is not tropic to me.
Nice but not tropic, even though a dealer would say it is.

 

The absolute best neil young album ever along harvest and harvest moon-this black dial has seen its best days but i still place it very high in my collection

 

Amazing examples of patina! Thanks for sharing!

 

Not a Rolex nor an Omega yet, this certainly is an example of patina. Manufactured in the fourth quarter of 1968 an original dial and hands with a NOS crystal and crown (Rolex). My apologies for the quality, a quick screen grab from my phone.

 

Looks like it could be a nice example of a Tudor snowflake with the ghost insert but the photo skills need some tweaking

 

The greatest mistake of my life was selling this one



I would love it back.

 

Dang, nice watch! And dang, I’ve made a lot worse mistakes...

 

Mmmmmmmm patina

 

I'm quite in love with the patina on my Tollet watch.
It's a watch from the 1940's with a Venus column wheel, calibre 150 inside.

 

Nowhere the quality of the fantastic examples of patina already posted , but here goes . Two of my own favourite watches with some nice patina .

 

I'm a big fan of entropy--especially in art. A "patina" is a form of epidermal entropy--and there's a lot that has been written on this subject across the arts. One place I'd begin is with Moshen Mostafavi and David Leatherbarrow's book On Weathering: The Life of Buildings in Time (MIT, 1993)--their argument is built up around buildings like Marcel Breuer's De Bijenkorg Department store in Rotterdam:



I'd put those "tropical" toned dials in this category too....

 

Some time ago you posted this same image. I liked it then. I still like it now. A lot.

Have fun
kfw

 

Some patina

 

Nothing beats a nice brownish RO dial

 

Lots of patina / Radium burn here.

 

Who said patina?