Contemporary Alchemy (Part 1)
At the very edge of watchmaking, we find the art of turning powdered oxides into synthetic crystals and complicated marriages of two or more materials. This is the world of composites and sapphire crystal, and it is getting colourful.
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Hublot is a master of composites and material experimentation, as seen here in the MP-09 Tourbillon Bi-Axis Rainbow 3D Carbon. Photo: Hublot
This is the first of three parts of our special on composites in watchmaking. Part 1 sees watch editor Ashok go into the nitty gritty of what composites are and how they figure in watchmaking. Part 2 will run through in brief the history of composite materials throughout human civilisation while Part 3 will feature contemporary use of composites and recent engineering feats in watchmaking.
As children, we often learn about the strength of groups versus that of individuals, and a commonplace story on the subject goes like this: a single stick is easily broken, but get a bunch of them together and they get pretty tough. This becomes even more obvious when the individual sticks are bound tightly to each other, with strings for example. Apart from the metaphorical implications here, there are plenty of intriguing engineering propositions to consider, and it seems humans have been intrigued for a good long while about the possibilities.
If you are anything like us, you have taken a look at the image we have chosen to open with, the title...
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Hublot is a master of composites and material experimentation, as seen here in the MP-09 Tourbillon Bi-Axis Rainbow 3D Carbon. Photo: Hublot
This is the first of three parts of our special on composites in watchmaking. Part 1 sees watch editor Ashok go into the nitty gritty of what composites are and how they figure in watchmaking. Part 2 will run through in brief the history of composite materials throughout human civilisation while Part 3 will feature contemporary use of composites and recent engineering feats in watchmaking.
As children, we often learn about the strength of groups versus that of individuals, and a commonplace story on the subject goes like this: a single stick is easily broken, but get a bunch of them together and they get pretty tough. This becomes even more obvious when the individual sticks are bound tightly to each other, with strings for example. Apart from the metaphorical implications here, there are plenty of intriguing engineering propositions to consider, and it seems humans have been intrigued for a good long while about the possibilities.
If you are anything like us, you have taken a look at the image we have chosen to open with, the title...
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