Those watches were more an everyday life tool-watch, rather than the luxury dive watch that often never saw anything beneath the water. Often running movements that were made by other brands (Swiss or Japanese), that era of watches was a lot more accessible and maintainable.
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That aside, the fact that it is running a Japanese made Miyota reminds me of those late 70's department store skin divers.
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They not only readjusted the hands but also deemed it important to do a full movement swap and readjustment as part of the repair. The service experience punched in above its weight in my opinion. But, Baltic took care of it without any hassle within about two weeks. I did have to send mine back to Paris about a month after I got it for a slight defect the hour-hand fell behind and wasn't indexing on the hour mark correctly. If you wear it, it will patina.Ī Miyota 9038, which is a dateless 9015, powers the the Aquascaphe line and, at least in mine, has been adjusted to keeping better time than the base spec of the movement. But for me, the appeal of bronze is that its patina is related to the life it lives it isn't something that should be forced or artificially induced. Of course, patina can be forced as many enthusiasts have written about in the forums.
In its place is an older, well spent US penny toned case. Gone is the bright almost copper look of this case, a look my wife now prefers. I won't say this watch patinas slowly, if you actively ware it. īaltic uses a CuAL8, with the aluminum helping to prevent the more green bronze-disease patina that other watches can develop. Should a bronze wearer deem it necessary, the patina can be reduced or reversed, as Christopher Ward outlines in their cleaning and maintenance video for their Diver C60 Bronze. Bronze, unlike stainless steel, has a natural reset switch of sorts.
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With bronze-curiosity on the rise, many collectors and enthusiasts were asking the same three questions: how does one tend to Bronze? How will the patina develop (and in some cases, how to force certain patina coloration)? And lastly, how could one reverse the patina that had developed? UK based watch manufacturer Christopher Ward even produced a video for their dive watch on how to "care" for bronze a good reference for any bronze or patina-curious watch owner. Navy master diver Carl Brashear, to small Vancouver based Halios just north of us in Bellingham with their simple Seaforth in bronze, the materiel was becoming more broadly used. In the years after that Tudor, several other watch brands crafted their watches in different amalgams of bronze. What interested me about his example was the fact that his bronze was no longer a brilliant bronze copper, or green like I expected it to be in the northwest, but instead had just turned an almost tropical brown. It was only a year or two after that watch had come out. As I say thanks to the cashier, I turn to the other patron packing his groceries and just ask, "Tudor Black Bay?" A chuckle and "good eye" from the gentleman led to conversation about it and about loving it when he sails his boat in Bellingham Bay. As I was at the check-out stand with some local produce, the gentleman in front of me, as many do, grabs the divider to separate our purchases when I caught sight of a copper colored dive watch. Bellingham isn't a horological hotspot, so seeing a more unique timepiece on someone's wrist is usually indicative of a rare enthusiast or someone with a story to tell. Back around 2017, when people could physically bump into each other on accident at say, the local Food Co-op, I ran into a gentleman here in Bellingham wearing, at the time, a unique watch.
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