I waited a few months before I wrote my review....I purchased this bronze finished faucet to replace my old bronze finished faucet. THE OLD ONE had peeled off after only a year and no longer had any bronze look remaining at all....However the Cassidy,after months of repeated use and scrubbings, is still bronze! It also, as a single handle spigot, distributes the water very evenly as the water pressure increases....something that can be tricky for a faucet with a design such as this, but again the Cassidy has outperformed my own expectations! It may seem expensive it this economy, but you get what you pay for, and this faucet is worth every penny and then some!