timepieces_and_bags wrote: ↑Tue Oct 08, 2024 1:53 am On the flip side (and maybe I’m overly romanticizing it), I quite like the idea of instead going through the ‘journey’ oneself since then the watch is very individual to you.

For me, the journey to a unique & personalised level of patination is the point of bronze. Sometimes when the “optimal” finish is achieved, I think it would useful to stop right there. But then the patination gets darker, starts to look dirty in my view, and then I spend 2/3 minutes with some lemon juice to clean up the case to “almost but not quite raw”. The amazing journey starts again, a slightly different but equally enchanting experience, like a walk through the woods, different seasons, different trees, but familiar and always marvellous.