Thread: Patina & Aging
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Old 2 August 2009, 11:35 PM   #14
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Great photos guys.

With the advent of luminova it will be interesting to see whether it changes colour at all over time. It may in fact be that tritium dials (and hence those models with tritium) will become even more collectable over time as there are simply no more tritium models being produced that can exude vintage patina and character.

No more cream or yellow patina lume will occur unless Rolex decides to bring out a model (maybe a re-edition of a discontinued model) where the lume although luminova is by chemical process intentionally made to look vintage cream or yellow.

We have seen this recently with JLC who recently released a special edition of the long discontinued "Polaris". It has been very successful for JLC and one could well imagine how popular a Double Red Sea Dweller would be if Rolex were to release it in 10 years time.
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