Brasso?
Have worn my Tudor BBB pretty much 24/7 since I got it a fortnight ago and it has patinated nicely. How would I remove the patina should I decide to do so?
Brasso?
Lemon juice!
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Doesn’t Brasso include an abrasive polishing compound?
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MY NAME IS BARRY SCOTT.
NOW THAT YOU HAVE CLEANED UP YOUR OLD RUSTY TOOL BOX, SEE WHAT CILLIT BANG CAN DO TO YOUR PATINATED TUDOR BRONZE WATCH CASE!!!
Cape Cod polishing cloth.
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Nitromors.
"A man of little significance"
Toothpaste?
No, seriously, that's what someone told me.
Anyway, what's wrong with patina, Ryan?
Simon
I cleaned my Oris bronze watch with a simple jewellery cloth. Worked a treat.
Failing that, you could try dunking it in a glass of coke....
Lemon juice, vinegar, anything weakly acidic. I don’t recommend any abrasive polish unless the surface of the brass is smooth. If it’s a beadblasted or coarse finish a polish will alter it. Bathroom cleaner shoukd work too and provided it’s not an abrasive cream it should be OK.
The patination is a light oxide layer that is better dissolved away. However, there’s a good chance this will activate the surface and it’ll patinate even faster.
I think you’re best accepting the patination as part of the look. Personally I’m not a fan, but each to his own. Brass is one step up from base metal and is the wrong stuff for watch cases IMO.
Paul
Cape cod
A toothbrush and lemon juice mixed with baking soda is a mild and easy way to do it. I brought my Zenith bronze pilot back by using this method.
I didn't use this guide when I did my watch but looking at the page, it does give a good description and is the route I took.
https://pinionwatches.com/cleaning-a-bronze-watch/
Coca cola
Actually, scrub that. Just buy a new one. It's what you usually do.
Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
Mix lemon juice, HP sauce, ketchup, Worcestershire sauce and Coke and you can’t go wrong with oxide reduction. Add toothpaste if you want to polish, but I would avoid on brushed or blasted surfaces.
Then lick it clean
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Last edited by BillyCasper; 15th December 2017 at 18:19.
Why would you get a bronze if you're bothered by patina ? It's kind of common knowledge that it'll patinate as time goes by. That's the magic of a bronze watch.
Once shiny you could coat it in Incralac. that should stop it oxidizing again.
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Brasso
Bicarb of soda mixed with lemon juice
So basically anything on earth will depatinate a brass watch :)
Thanks for the advice guys. To clarify it looks AWESOME with patina but given my pathological need to flip watches somewhere down the line I can polish it and it will look like a new watch and I won't feel the need to flip. Possibly.
Do not use any kind of brass 'cleaner' like brasso as this will polish out the grain on the finish.
We can completely restore bronze watches back to their original(ish) state by dipping them in a solution and then brushing to refinish, we had to do this with some bronze cases where they'd started to patina over a 2 year period. However if you did this the whole Watch would need to be stripped and rebuilt. So it's not worth it (cost) just enjoy the patina as it develops, or chop in for a steel watch :-)
Piers
When I wanted to take the patina of my PRS30 I tried most of the methods listed - lemon juice, bicarb, toothpaste etc. While they all worked to an extent, none were of them removed everything.
I finally gave up and tried Brasso - it leaned it all of in seconds. All I used since..
I’m a bit weary of it on my new Evant bronze, as it has a sand blasted finish. Will wait and see how the patina develops first.
That sounds like a rhyme we used to sing at school.
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Get it plated. Bronze is a really good base metal for plating. Gold, silver, nickel, chrome to name a few.
Here's the answer https://youtu.be/gV7cG31or6g
Any numismatists are aware of the fact that there is nothing worse than a cleaned and polished coin … especially a tarted up bronze coin. Patina is natural and attractive; polished patina looks bloody awful and can ruin valuable collectables.
dunk
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Brasso has a cut to it so unless you want a polished rather than brushed Tudor i would not use it.