Don't get me wrong, I love some age appropriate patina on my vintage watches, but I think singing the praises of this one is perhaps going a little too far...



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I quite like it.

 

Hm, i like Patina, but this watch Looks sick.

But it´s an old watch and you can read the signs of time.


Thats what my Mirror tells me every morning

 

That's a highly sought-after "Oreo cookie Vanilla" dial. I assume that Hodinkee is planning a special edition...

 

Cookies and cream!

 

I dontd think this should be called "patina", I think it's just a poorly aged dial

 

There's 'patina' due to age and there's 'damage' due to water intrusion.

Here the latter created a moldy look of the dial. No 'patina' for me.

 

I'd call it stracciatella dial

 

This one gets a pass from me - obviously not at a premium like people seem to charge for damaged Rolex dials, but this is quite evenly damaged and thus looks interesting to me. If it were more splotchy, or only partially looked like this it would be .

But not at the current price on it. That's ludicrous.

 

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Specially for 625 £

 

I find it miraculous none of the dial paint was subject to damage...

 

The sad part is that some poor bugger will soon be walking around with this health hazard strapped to their wrist... and what's more there's further evidence of the Oreo mould on the movement parts... Each to their own I suppose.

 

I like a tobacco patina, chocolate etc...When it comes to peeling dial paint nah...

 

Come on guys, these watches had a hard life

I wear my wabi sabi aqua graph with pride

 

eBay always has some good ones...

 

That Enicar (lovely watch btw) is more 'starburst' as the 16660 boys would say, than mould... Hence you'd be more than welcome to that one with pride!

 

Let's call it "patimage" or "damina"...

 

How about this

 

I saw this one for sale within the last couple of days. This sort of patina seems beautiful to me (just as so many others do not). It has a sort of Cosmic look.
But the question it raises is isn't that flaking off the dial? And so won't it continue? Stable? Just where does all the newly flaked off material go? It just continues to accumulate between the dial and the crystal? Won't the hands eventually find it? Over the long haul does one periodically open it up to clean out the debris?

 

Do you think it is is flaking? I would think it is color degradation quite common in blue dials of those years.