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Watchmaking is definitely an art that is centuries old. However, some brands have only recently begun experimenting with the use of ceramics in their timepieces.Still, ceramics has 16,000 years of...
Tungsten, the unscratchable metal
Tungsten is a material that only few people know well about, despite being widely employed for its peculiar properties. The name says it all: it is derived from the Swedish words “Tung Sten” meani...
Watchmaking moves towards smaller diameters
Throughout the twentieth century, the size of cases grew bigger and bigger, with an acceleration from the 1970s onwards. Then, the average diameter spanned between 36 and 37 mm. In the 1980s the f...
