Its All About The Patina

jeff uk
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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.
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Jeff
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rkman11
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jeff uk jeff uk
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
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Beautiful! As you can tell, loves me some patina (sometimes more than some) and this is a looker!
 
ANALOGUE
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Sorry but that is not tropic to me.
Nice but not tropic, even though a dealer would say it is.
 
joso
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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
 
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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.
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asrnj77
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fastfras fastfras
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.
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Looks like it could be a nice example of a Tudor snowflake with the ghost insert but the photo skills need some tweaking 😜
 
base615
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The greatest mistake of my life was selling this one

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I would love it back.
 
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The greatest mistake of my life was selling this one
Dang, nice watch! And dang, I’ve made a lot worse mistakes...
 
Fritzer
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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.
 
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Nowhere the quality of the fantastic examples of patina already posted , but here goes . Two of my own favourite watches with some nice patina .
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Muddlerminnow
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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:

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