{"id":783,"date":"2011-12-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.my-watchsite.com\/blog\/the-new-type-18-carat-gold-of-hublot-n1141\/"},"modified":"2011-12-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T23:00:00","slug":"the-new-type-18-carat-gold-of-hublot-n1141","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.my-watchsite.com\/blog\/the-new-type-18-carat-gold-of-hublot-n1141\/","title":{"rendered":"The new type 18-carat gold of Hublot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On Thursday 15th December, in the Metallurgy department of the Hublot Manufacture in Nyon, Jean-Claude Biver, Hublot&#8217;s CEO, and Andreas Mortensen, a Professor at EFPL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne) unveiled a range of brand new alloys which are set to revolutionise the characteristics of precious materials and may also pave the way for new alloys to be used in the high-tech industry.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This presentation focused on a genuine &#8220;fusion&#8221; of 24-carat gold (the finest of the noble materials and a natural product) and the very latest in high-tech materials expertise. Almost three years of collaboration and research have gone into achieving this impressive result: a completely new type of noble gold, with patents pending and graded 18 carat by the Central Office for Precious Metals Control. Hublot&#8217;s 18-carat gold is the world&#8217;s first scratch-resistant gold, and as such eliminates the age-old vulnerability of gold and its alloys.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Hardness is a measure of a material&#8217;s resistance to indentation; doubling a material&#8217;s hardness means doubling the force required to produce a given indentation. Whereas &#8220;standard&#8221; high-quality 18-carat gold can reach 400 on the Vickers hardness scale, Hublot gold has a hardness rating of almost 1000 Vickers (most hardened steels are up to 600 Vickers).This makes Hublot gold the hardest in the world, and by some margin: it can only really be &#8220;scratched&#8221; by diamond.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Components made from this material are produced using a complex process: boron carbide powder is formed by cold isostatic pressing in moulds very close in shape to that of the finished part, e.g. watch cases, bracelets, bezels, etc. This ceramic -one of the hardest in existence &#8211; is also highly refractory: the preforms are then hardened at very high temperatures to create a rigid, porous structure without altering the shape. After this, molten liquid gold is injected under very high pressure. This operation is performed under inert gas pressure, at a sufficiently high temperature and pressure to ensure that the molten metal fills the pores in the ceramic, causing the two to &#8220;fuse&#8221; into a single new material. The resulting 18-carat Magic Gold must, like other 18-carat alloys, be composed of 750 parts pure gold out of 1000, but the inclusion of ceramic makes this gold scratch-resistant, unlike traditional 18-carat gold.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Hublot has now passed the experimental stage for its new gold and acquired the means to produce the new material entirely in its own Manufacture, thanks to a high-tech foundry enabling processes such as refractory ceramic sintering and high pressure metal casting. The first watches made from Magic Gold will be presented at BaselWorld 2012.<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.my-watchsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/253_595.jpg\" alt=\"A new type of 18-carat gold has been developed par Hublot in collaboration with EPFL.\" \/><\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.my-watchsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/253_596.jpg\" alt=\"Jean-Claude Biver, CEO of Hublot, in the Metallurgy department of the Hublot Manufacture.\" \/><\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.my-watchsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/253_597.jpg\" alt=\"Jean-Claude Biver, CEO of Hublot, presents the art of fusion. \" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday 15th December, in the Metallurgy department of the Hublot Manufacture in Nyon, Jean-Claude Biver, Hublot&#8217;s CEO, and Andreas Mortensen, a Professor at EFPL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne) unveiled a range of brand new alloys which are set to revolutionise the characteristics of precious materials and may also pave the way for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":784,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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