Chromovelato is the generic Italian terminology for applying a transluscent colour coat over chrome plating. It was probably most popular in the early 1980s with several manufacturers (Colnago, Scapin, Moser, Bartali, etc.)but goes back further. I recall boom era Torpado with the finish. I believe it was orignally developed as an improvment on Legnano's transparante verde, which was their famous transparent green over silver paint.

I am surprised you can even ask this question.

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Mmmmmm..........shiny.

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This Faggin is a variation on that. Fully chromed with a red
semi transparent overlay. The chrome is very polished and if
you even look at it funny, the paint flakes off.

Aha! That was it. Thank you for correcting me.

Also, thank you for my new favorite word. It trips lovingly off the tongue.

Plus, thank you for shoving me down a new slippery slope. I've been googling chromovelato and now have a new grail bike. Life will not be right until I nab a Colnago Arabesque Gentleman. I suppose for an internet forum to be worth anything, it must make you hypermanic for something you had no idea existed two minutes earlier.

Works for me. If I hadn't seen some stuff on here about Faggin,
I'd be 500 bucks richer and have one less in the garage.