Gumtree C60 Bronze - patina developing
Re: Gumtree C60 Bronze - patina developing
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Re: Gumtree C60 Bronze - patina developing
Hi dude! is it possible to make bronze age with salt water at home? lke mixing lots of salt with regular tap water and letting the watch sit there?
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Re: Gumtree C60 Bronze - patina developing
You can do all sorts of things to speed up the patination of bronze.But it's oxidisation that you're looking for, so the best way is to expose it to stuff like washing powder, bleach etc. Salt has little effect, and acid (vinegar wine cocacola etc) will make it shiny.m0hammed_khaled wrote:Hi dude! is it possible to make bronze age with salt water at home? lke mixing lots of salt with regular tap water and letting the watch sit there?
Treatments like this will effect the whole watch and make it go dull or even green. The best way is to just wear it daily. In this way, it will age according to use. So the high spots will stay fresh where they rub on clothing etc, and the recessed parts of the case will age quicker. This will look more natural than an artificially aged bronze watch.
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Agree entirely with Paul. Watching the patina emerge, and developing your own “vintage” is one of the pleasures of owning a bronze watch. The result will be uneven and gradual, and to my preference, a much better look than the uniformity of pre-patina or forced patina.Paul Drawmer wrote:The best way is to just wear it daily. In this way, it will age according to use. So the high spots will stay fresh where they rub on clothing etc, and the recessed parts of the case will age quicker. This will look more natural than an artificially aged bronze watch.
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Re: Gumtree C60 Bronze - patina developing
Completely agree with both guys, it’s been interesting watching my C60 taken on its uniqueness.0uatiOW wrote:Agree entirely with Paul. Watching the patina emerge, and developing your own “vintage” is one of the pleasures of owning a bronze watch. The result will be uneven and gradual, and to my preference, a much better look than the uniformity of pre-patina or forced patina.Paul Drawmer wrote:The best way is to just wear it daily. In this way, it will age according to use. So the high spots will stay fresh where they rub on clothing etc, and the recessed parts of the case will age quicker. This will look more natural than an artificially aged bronze watch.
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Re: Gumtree C60 Bronze - patina developing
Here are some updates photos. As Richard pointed out, the patina is quite uniform on the top of the watch. It’s a bit less uniform on the case side as I’ve tried to show.
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Re: Gumtree C60 Bronze - patina developing
oh man, that's looking nice. I'm think of getting a bronze a bronze myself, not sure wich is best though. Raw or patinated
Re: Gumtree C60 Bronze - patina developing
Could we get an update of the patina?
-edit, sorry found more photos now
-edit, sorry found more photos now
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Re: Gumtree C60 Bronze - patina developing
The process continues. Still has a pretty even look to it.
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I love these updates Alex as it gives us an idea what it will look like over ownership of the watch.
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Re: Gumtree C60 Bronze - patina developing
Having had this watch for a year now, this feels like a good time for a final photo update. It’s far from work every day, or even every day, but the patina has developed just as I hoped it would. It’s a watch that I really like and I’m please that I own.
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Re: Gumtree C60 Bronze - patina developing
That's brilliant Alex.
A lovely soft patina to it and nothing too extreme.
From early photos of yours, and others, I was concerned that the rate of patination was quite quick and thus, after a while it would become too extreme or heavy.
Doesn't look like it has turned out that way.
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A lovely soft patina to it and nothing too extreme.
From early photos of yours, and others, I was concerned that the rate of patination was quite quick and thus, after a while it would become too extreme or heavy.
Doesn't look like it has turned out that way.
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Re: Gumtree C60 Bronze - patina developing
Excellent, I have had this watch since September and confer patina occurs quickly, then slows and does not end up overdone,resulting in something dragged from the sea bed. Although others like this scenario and force patination to extremes.
Personally I like the way mine and yours have turned out.
Personally I like the way mine and yours have turned out.
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