Work Wear: Gold watch people, really understand the gold watch it?

Mentioned before, "What does a woman wearing a gold watch mean," a male watchmate said that men wearing a gold watch also have decent charm.

It goes without saying, but in some people's perceptions, the watch will still be linked with the old land. That may be because of certain blind spots. Today, what is the gold watch?

Mention the old man when they bring a gold watch,

Do you really understand the gold watch?

Different "gold" table how to distinguish?

When it comes to "gold" watches, not all gold is the same. Now pass ISO8654 for the "gold" alloy is still divided by the Swiss watchmaking industry in 1966 to develop standards. This standard will gold alloy color, from 0N to 5N is divided into six levels. These figures refer to the finished color: 0N and 1N have only 58.5% gold content, and therefore can not be called 18K gold.

As for 2N to 5N, which is commonly known as 18K gold, gold content of 75% or more. The highest grade 5N alloy contains almost no silver or contains a very small amount of silver, the finished product will be the more red.

According to a more specific compositional criteria, the World Gold Council classifies 18K gold into three color categories:

Gold: 75% gold, 15% silver, 10% copper;

White k gold: 75% gold, 25% platinum or palladium;

Red Gold: 75% gold, 9.2% silver, 22.2% copper.

There are many red gold watches on the market, but also different from each other. Watchmakers are also fine-tuning the proportions of the three ingredients (gold, silver and copper) to create their own exclusive formula.

Gold watch

Rolex SKY DWELLER series

mechanical men's watch

Million table price: 323,510 yuan

Gold watch can be said that "pure gold" the most common form of a table, many brands, such as Rolex, Omega and so on. What is the gold watch? Case with 750 ‰ of gold + 125 ‰ of silver + 125 ‰ copper cast, due to the silver and copper together with the color is very similar to gold, so with gold die cast alloy still maintained the true nature of the gold, but increased hardness Quite a few, fully able to cope with the pull from the strap.

Platinum watch

Vacheron Constantin inheritance series

43578 / 000G-9393 mechanical men's watch

Million table price: 525300 yuan

White Gold is an alloy usually composed of 75% gold and other metals mixed together, the surface appears white, commonly known as white 18K gold. White K gold English White Gold, translated into Chinese really white gold, but many people easily confused platinum and platinum, in fact, there is a serious misunderstanding.

Red gold watch

Blancpain Villeret series

6639-3637-MMB Mechanical Men's Watch

Million table price: 380,480 yuan

People are too suspicious of gold too gorgeous, too platinum too low-key, so with red gold. 18K red gold is made of 75% gold and 25% of other metals, the color is named after the red. Due to the different types and proportions of other metals used, the color and composition of the 18k red gold are also different.

Rose gold and red gold is the same?

Strictly speaking, the two are not the same. In addition to the nuances of the most obvious colors, the content and proportion of different types of metals in red and rose gold are also different.

Rose gold

Patek Philippe Complications Time Series

5130R-018 mechanical men's watch

Million table price: 329300 yuan

Oriental people like gold, but the soft gold is easy to deform and it is easy to wear. Therefore, ancient people began to try adding a small amount of other precious metals in pure gold to increase the hardness of gold.

K gold is now a lot of color, gold and other metals in the fusion, as long as the addition of different types of metal, the formation of different colors K gold. For example, the most common red lines nowadays include copper, silver and nickel or palladium added to white, and sterling silver added to green.

K series of red gold jewelry to join the main gold, copper, 75% of the gold by adding 25% of the electrolytic copper is red gold, the proportion of 18K gold formed under the red color. If you add silver, the color will be lighter, the more silver you add, the lighter the red. When 18K gold, silver content increased to 10%, copper retreated to about 15%, the color will be more partial powder, it has become a rose gold. So, in fact, red gold should look more red than rose gold.

In addition to the common "four gold" (gold, rose gold, platinum, red gold), what are the "gold"?

Sedna gold

This alloy is unique to the Swatch Group and the first brand to use it for watchmaking is Omega. Sedna ™ Gold is a new Omega named alloy that is made of three metallic elements, gold, copper and palladium. This is a 18K rose gold, the minimum content of gold is 75%. Sedna ™ gold's unique rose-red color benefits, in part, from the proper proportions of copper, and palladium ensures the lasting beauty of Sedna ™ gold-reddish colors.

Omega Pa Pa series

130.53.39.21.02.001 mechanical male watch

Million table price: 113,490 yuan

The new alloy comes from the name Neptune, the astronomer called Sedna, and Sedna is considered to be one of the most color-shaded objects in the solar system. In addition, Sedna is also the name of a goddess living in the bottom of the Arctic Ocean in the legend of Inuit.

Magic gold

Hublot BIG BANG series
411.MX.1138.RX mechanical men's watch

Reference price: 246700 yuan

Magic Gold is a gold and ceramic composite precious metal jointly developed by Hublot and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL). This unique 18K synthetic gold with unprecedented wear resistance, effective solution to the senior watch metal surface in the production, processing and wear of the widespread process of scratches and scratches, called "the world's most hard Gold. " Ordinary 18K gold Vickers hardness of only 400, while the magic gold Vickers hardness of nearly 1000, is more than twice the ordinary 18K gold.

Wang Jin