I would argue that patina only holds value if it's patina on top of the original materials. In this case the bike has been painted over -- not just repainted, painted over! So, is the after-market paint a kind of patina over the original color? At some point a bike falls into a sort of uncanny valley where it looks like a beat up bike that someone tried to make look like a new bike.

Plus, look at this:





See, this is clearly a celeste bike that has too much build up on the original paint.

Honestly, though, my main complaints are that I don't like the lack of contrast between the decals and the frame color and that the metallic teal thing hasn't settled as well in my mind as I thought it might, like once the novelty wore off it just started to feel kind of kitschy. I wanted a celeste Bianchi when I bought this, but the price was good, so I thought I'd try it out and repaint if it didn't grow on me. It didn't grow on me.