Watch Case Materials Explained: Ceramic
Contributed by ?lker ?zcan, who is a professional Materials Engineer and owns a small R&D company (ndsgnwatches-dealer).In this article on watch case materials, we have decided to write about ceramics. Ceramics are possibly the least understood of the materials used in watches. Many watchmakers are nowadays using ceramics for their watch cases �C which gained popularity with Rado. Now Chanel, Hublot, Omega, IWC, and many others produce watches with ceramic cases in full or in part.Materials are generally classified as Metals, Polymers, Ceramics, and Composites. Sometimes foams, etcare added but these four classes are universally accepted. So ceramics are one of the three main classes, where composites are mixtures of these three.Ceramics are essentially inorganic solids (organic ones are polymers) that are also not metals. So in addition to what is usually thought as ceramics , glass, diamond and graphite are classified as ceramics. The sapphire used as watch crystals is also a cer

Introducing: Zenith Launches 3 New References In Its Iconic Type 20 Collection
If you’re anything like me, you mainly know Zenith for their El Primero Chronographs – and, most notably, for their El Primero Classic Chronograph that they released at Baselworld this year. What most people don’t know is that the 150-year-old manufacture released another batch of watches at Baselworld 2015; these pieces received less camera-time than others, but they’re all doing pretty interesting things – so it may be unfair that Zenith’s new Type 20 Pilot collection has been flying under the radar for this long. The first of these watches, and, the most accessible, is the “Pilot Type 20 Extra Special,” a watch similar to the past iterations of Zenith’s pilot collection with one obvious distinction: it’s in bronze. Out with the stainless steel, in with the readily-acquired-patina, am I right? The distinct choice of metal combined with the watch’s large onion crown, domed sapphire crystal, and militaristic case

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Ref 2890 (1958)
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