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Great Piece from Prodigal Guide / We Know It When We See It
In Response To: More thoughts on Patina ()

David:

Thanks for posting this excellent piece from The Prodigal Guide. Use the link below to read this excellent piece.

Here is a quick excerpt from the blog posting:

    "Patina for its own sake, patina at the expense of everything else should not be the Holy Grail of vintage watch buying. Patina is a just a grand term to describe the effects of age on a timepiece. Sometimes, on the right face, in the right quantity, patina can have a tremendously positive impact. Sometimes, on the wrong face or when left unchecked for too long, the impact is wholly negative."
I agree entirely . . . there is a type of aging that can enhace the look of a watch, and there is also aging that is nothing more than deterioration or distress. We all have our own preferences, which gets us over to topics such as restoration / replacement of components / repainting / etc. Maybe the good patina is like Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewarts' definition of "obscenity" or "hard core pornography" . . . it's difficult to define, but we know it when we see it.
    "I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description ["hard-core pornography"]; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that." [Justice Potter Stewart, concurring opinion in Jacobellis v. Ohio 378 U.S. 184 (1964), regarding possible obscenity in The Lovers.]
Excellent discussion . . . I'll stick with Justice Stewart's approach, and say that we know the good patina when we see it.

Jeff

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: Another view on Patina from the Prodigal Guide (Great blog- take a
: look)

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: http://theprodigalguide.com/2010/06/17/opinion-patina-is-not-the-holy-grail-of-vintage-watch-buying/

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