The use of new materials and even rare materials directly from the periodic table of the elements, a revolutionary shift in the functionality and appearance of the watch.
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Carbon fiber: the best material in the world. Their strength, toughness and wear resistance are significantly higher than other fibrous material.
As a new material, carbon fiber material because of its light weight and high hardness was often used to manufacture cutting-edge machinery, such as Ferrari and in the America’s Cup boats. But in the high-end watch manufacture, use of carbon fiber material is no longer commonplace. Carbon fiber shade, Palladium of materials including silicon, tantalum and magnesium, these dazzling names only those who not lazy NAP on the high school chemistry can recognize. Watchmakers are using these materials as well as some new alloys and surface treatment process protected by a patent, or improve the watch timer functionality, or create a whole new aesthetic effect.
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In recent years, some watch companies spared no expense to research and development of Silicon material movement components, particularly the Hairspring and escapement wheel. Silicon for its high hardness, light weight advantages of magnetic resistance and improves the accuracy of watches Chronograph, and more importantly, it can make a watchmaker out lubricants. Because the effect of lubricant will fade over time, not only reduces the accuracy of watches, but also needs to keep the debug.
Tantalum: a rare, hard, lustrous bluish-grey metal, strong corrosion resistance, in the tantalite.
Product family for 2 years to the development of this watch has filed 6 patents. Product Technology Director Stephane Soufalis said: “we plan to watch as a platform in future use this new watch certain materials and styling. But the challenge is to achieve technology transfer. After all, some distance from concept to mass production, but we are moving slowly on the development of new technologies.
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Beryl: an opaque inclusions of quartz, the common colors are red, yellow, and Brown.
For the Swiss watch brand DeWitt, Silicon material is limited to use in watch design. Company founder and President Jerome De Witt had spent months improving the method of laser cutting is extremely fragile, to ensure that the cutting required to dial out of ultra thin silicon wafer. DeWitt also invented a technique: use metal coloring of the material and enhanced the angular planes of reflection. De Witt said: “inside silicon seems to get a life, it emits light. Because each piece of Silicon is different, so each timepiece is unique. ”
Harry Winston; Zenith; Dewitt Palladium Triple Complication GMT watches; Hautlence limited edition
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Clockwise from top to bottom: Harry Winston Z4 dual time zone watches, watch cases made from Zalium; black titanium Watches Zenith Defy Xtreme Open Stealth;Dewitt Palladium Triple Complication GMT watches; Hautlence limited edition HLs08 wrist watch use the Ti2 case tantalum metal surface diamond sand.
Palladium: Platinum, silvery-white, malleable metal.
DLC (diamond-like): also has a characteristic form of carbon graphite and diamond.
Compare with DeWitt, Athens table, and Jaeger LeCoultre, watch Romain Jerome’s “Titanic DNA” watches are to maximize the use of old materials. These limited edition watch case made of salvaged the wreck of the Titanic’s rusting wreckage, the salvage was completed in 1995, the wreck was listed as protected areas. At the time of these rusty metal casing, Romain Jerome before the debris together with some new metal into molten iron. And these new metal comes from the halandewoerfu shipyard in Belfast, Ireland, this is also the casting Titanic shipyard.
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