I spent some time rebuilding an old industrial GDR lamp.

It's a VEB Wittenberg 25.1, with the paint removed from the aluminium castings.

These things are ~200Eur and worth every cent, they're built to be serviced and I can't imagine any newly produced lamp to have the same high quality parts at anything close to that price.

It did take maybe 20hrs to rebuild though. Lots of grinding old paint. Rebuilding it from fluorescent tubes to LED wires.