Classic & Vintage - Crazed paint on Bianchi?

I was looking very closely at the paint on a celeste Bianchi ChromoLite I have built up. The paint looks like it is crazed or crackled. It doesn't appear to be that way on the clearcoat because it feels smooth and glossy, but the paint underneath is not smooth looking.

I never noticed this until the light hit it just right and I started to look real close. I have also never noticed it on the older celeste Bianchis I have seen, but this is the newer metallic type Celeste. Anyone else have this issue with their Bianchi paint?

I have...that crackled finish is all over my nouvo alloro from 1987 - some people like the vintage look. Costs extra from Cyclart to have "alligatored" paint...

I thought "crazing" only occured with improperly-applied lacquers. I can't imagine they would have used lacquer at any time in the past 30 years.
Could be a problem with the primer, or maybe there was no sealer used between the primer and the color. Also could be a clearcoat that attacked the colorcoat.
Or maybe it was space monsters that did it. :)

By the way, the 'alligatored" look of a wrinkly finsh is very "in" now. Just look at Sheryl Crow.

By the way, the 'alligatored" look of a wrinkly finsh is very "in" now. Just look at Sheryl Crow.

Actually, I've heard that Sheryl Crow is very "out." ;)

I'd take a picture, but I loaned the bike out last summer and can't seem to get the woman to give it back to me...the finish is broken with a network of tiny cracks. I dunno the proper technical term - I've heard it referred to as crazing, but I dunno if that's right - also there are areas of larger, roughly symmetrical cracks that make an alligator skin pattern...

I am pretty sure that Bianchi would not have used lacquer, except maybe on their expensive line...

To me, the look is more like shattered glass.

Ed Litton does or did paint warranty work for Bianchi, that would be if you wanted it redone.