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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;buyingtime777, post: 272103, member: 188&quot;]My husband and I restore antique Waltham key wind pocket watches. I am sometimes criticized for cleaning the tarnish from the silver cases. Some people don&#039;t understand that the tarnish is actually slowly pitting and damaging the silver. I have seen pocket watch cases badly disfigured from a thick layer of tarnish for a hundred years. The people that criticize me do indeed call it patina. I have always looked at it from the view of stabilizing the piece but you are indeed correct that the gentleman who originally purchased the watch would be deeply saddened to see it black with tarnish![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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