![]() 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. It naturally darkened through those adventures, with a patina reflective of that life.īaltic uses a CuAL8, with the aluminum helping to prevent the more green bronze-disease patina that other watches can develop. Having taken this on mountain and in water, it is a watch for people enthusiastic about getting out, adventuring, and just living life. The Aquascaphe’s case dimensions are in the growingly popular 39mm with a 47mm lug to lug. The Aquascaphe itself is akin to the skin diver watches of the 70s, with a sizing and aesthetic of the 50s. 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)? 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. For this reason, Tudor’s used an aluminum bronze for the Black Bay Bronze.” ![]() This is because aluminum bronzes resist oxidation better, and the aluminum oxides that form in the patina provide superior corrosion resistance (as well as discouraging the formation of copper sulfides). “The patina itself is the result of copper oxidizing from exposure to air… his is especially a problem in marine applications, where aluminum bronzes are preferred. Jack Forester, of Hodinkee, detailed the process in a 2016 article on bronze and its traditional amalgam of tin and copper Not all bronze is the same, as it is a mixture of percentages of copper, tin, and later the addition of aluminum. What makes up bronze?Īs Watchfinder & Co. 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. Within this community of enthusiasts, it’s common to find reviews with a “week on the wrist.” But today, I inadvertently offer a different take, on a material and a watch in a year-long ‘pandemic on the wrist’ with the Baltic Aquascaphe Bronze.īack 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. Around the web, there has been a boom in the #watchfam media sphere as more and more people have tuned into horology and timepieces. What the Two Broke Watch Snobs might call a #watchfast became a full Year-on-the-Wrist through a once in a life time event (or so I hope), a global pandemic. 2020 the year where we all felt a little weathered, or dare I say patinaed? Today marks one year from when an early Father’s Day gift turned into a year long companion on my wrist.
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