![]() And a touch of patina on your timepiece has certainly become fashionable, bringing some watches into that select and not altogether rational category of products that are thought to be enhanced by signs of age, along with some clothing, shoes and furniture, unlike, say, classic cars or paintings. ![]() “Send the same watch back to the manufacturer for servicing and they’ll ask if you want a new bezel,” laughs Mr Silver, who wears a 1960s tropical brown dial Submariner, “because for them it’s about preserving the functionality of the watch.”īut then fashion has rarely cared much for function. But they may want the white indices to have turned ivory – through the action of heat and light over time for a black dial to have mutated into a shade of brown, or “tropical”, as it’s known in the trade for the black bezel to have faded to grey, or, better still, for the numerals to have disappeared altogether, a look known as a “ghost” bezel for the red on that Rolex “Pepsi” GMT to be more, well, fuchsia. This doesn’t mean they want a watch to look battered that would perhaps indicate that it had not been well cared for. “And we find that now, for some people, when it comes to their sports watches, the more extreme the better.” “A patina – certain signs of wear on a watch – gives it rarity, value and individuality,” argues Mr Silver. “To them, they’re being asked to pay a premium for a watch that looks older.” Mr Silver is the owner of specialist dealer the Vintage Watch Company, where you can buy a rare vintage watch with faded bezel or dial, or discoloured numerals, for perhaps two to three times the price of a mint equivalent. ![]() “We do get people in who just don’t get it,” says Mr David Silver.
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